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I'm running Android 2.3 (2.3.2 specifically) on a Samsung Nexus S.

I've noticed that when typing, sometimes the first letter and/or the last letters of words result in double-letter hits, for example: like "tthis" or "thiss".

At first, I thought it had to do with typing speeds (typing too fast) or the oversensitivity of the Nexus S screen. Someone has discovered it is neither of those issues.

It's a glitch with the stock Android keyboard.

To recreate:

As some of you already know, I've been a big critic of the Gingerbread keyboard, specifically about an oddity that seems to occur with the first letter and/or sometimes the last letter of words repeating themselves. For example, like "tthis" or "thiss."

After a lot of investigating, and early speculation pointed to perhaps typing too fast or the over sensitivity of the Nexus S screen. As it turns out, none of those reasons are the cause. Smeone at the XDA forums discovered it has everything to do with the space bar; it's a glitch with Gingerbread keyboard itself.

To recreate:

Try typing "Good game" but after the "g" in "game" backspace until the end of "good" (so that the cursor is at the end of the letter 'd' in 'good'), then hit the space bar again and type the word "game" again. It should result in "ggame" despite a single press of the letter g.

So an example would go like this: Type g-o-o-d-spacebar-g-[then backspace/erase the g and the space, until your cursor is at the end of the "d" in "good"]-then hit space bar again and type "game" ... it should sometimes result in "ggame."

EDIT: Heck, you don't even need to type out the full word "game" after backspacing. You can just hit Spacebar-g-a and it'll result in "gga" instead of what it should be, "ga." The end result is "Good gga".

This doesn't happen every single time, but it happens every now and then, so keep trying. It will occur.

This should be addressed as writing long messages/emails can result in these double-letter hits littered throughout--very frustrating. The keyboard should register a single press as a single hit of the key, and not generate a second hit for no reason. I predict it has something to do with the space bar, because it only happens with the first letter (after a space) or the last letter (before a space) of words; never the letters in between.