Dot, Repeated
Dot repeated one hundred times below, joined with single spaces, 399 characters. Most people who land here want the character rather than the word, so type it into the box and the block rebuilds.
Repeat it 100, 1000 or 10,000 times
100 copies — 399 characters.
The word or the character
Two different things get searched for here. The block below is the word, three letters long. If you wanted the punctuation mark, put a single full stop in the seed box and press a count. The repeater joins copies with one space, so a hundred of them come out spaced apart, 199 characters, not an unbroken line.
An unbroken run has to come from a seed that already holds several. Three dots gives you groups of three with gaps between them, and because “…” is three characters like the word “dot”, it produces exactly the same totals: 399 characters at 100 copies, 3,999 at 1,000, 39,999 at 10,000.
| Copies | Characters | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 100 | 399 | Three SMS parts; a single message anywhere else |
| 1,000 | 3,999 | Two Discord messages at the 2,000-character cap |
| 10,000 | 39,999 | Take the file |
What a wall of dots is for
- Pushing earlier messages up out of view, so a screenshot or a mistake scrolls off the screen.
- Bumping a thread that will not accept an empty reply.
- Filling a field that refuses a blank value.
- Spacing in bios and captions, on apps that strip empty lines but keep punctuation.
What can go wrong
Anything that renders as Markdown or HTML collapses runs of spaces down to one, so a spaced block can arrive tighter than it left. Leading spaces get trimmed the same way. Check the preview before you send, and test with 100 before you build 10,000.
Related blocks: symbol dot and symbol. Everything else is on the repeat text hub.