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HTML

<input type="text" class="singleSpace" />

JavaScript

$('.singleSpace').keyup(function() {
  var foo = $(this).val().split(" ").join(""); // remove hyphens
  if (foo.length > 0) {
    foo = foo.match(new RegExp('.{1}', 'g')).join(" ");
  }
  $(this).val(foo);
});