I Love U, Repeated
The wall above is i love u 100 times, which is 899 characters and 300 words. Writing u instead of you saves two characters a copy, so 200 characters over a hundred copies.
Repeat it 100, 1000 or 10,000 times
100 copies — 899 characters.
Eight characters a copy
“i love u” is eight characters, and the repeater adds one space between copies, so N copies come to 9N minus 1 characters.
| Copies | Characters | Words |
|---|---|---|
| 100 | 899 | 300 |
| 1,000 | 8,999 | 3,000 |
| 10,000 | 89,999 | 30,000 |
The word count stays at three per copy. The short spelling saves characters, not words.
What the short spelling saves
i love you runs eleven characters a copy once the space is counted, against nine here. That is two characters saved per copy: 200 over a hundred copies, 2,000 over a thousand, 20,000 over ten thousand. love you is also eight characters, so it produces blocks of identical length to this one.
What fits where
- A single 160-character text message holds 17 copies.
- Discord’s 2,000-character message cap holds 222 copies, so the 100-copy block pastes in one go and the 1,000-copy block does not.
- At 10,000 copies the block is 89,999 characters, which is where the .txt download beats the clipboard.
Texts longer than one message are carried as 153-character segments, so the 100-copy block travels as 6 of them.
It is plain ASCII all the way through
There is no apostrophe in “i love u” and no accented letter, so nothing in the block can be turned into a curly quote or a question mark by a keyboard, an email client or a .txt file. That matters at ten thousand copies, where a single substituted character repeats ten thousand times. Phrases with punctuation in them do not travel as cleanly.
For a different phrase at the same three counts, start from repeat any text.