Title Swap

index.html

<div class="titleWrapper">
	<h1 class="first">Flatking</h1>	<h1 class="second">Navigation</h1>
</div>

script.js

jQuery(document).ready(function(){
	jQuery(".titleWrapper").addClass("ready");
	
jQuery(".titleWrapper h1").each(function(){
	var fullString;
	var characters = jQuery(this).text().split("");
	
	$this = jQuery(this);
	$this.empty();
	$.each(characters, function (i, el) {
		if(el == " "){el = " "};
    $this.append("<span>" + el + "</span");
	});
		
});
	
});

scripts

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.1.0/jquery.min.js"></script>

style.scss

@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Montserrat');

body{
	background:#fafafa;
	font-size:0;
	position: relative;
	height:500px;
}

.titleWrapper{
	position:absolute;
	top:0;
	left:0;
	right:0;
	bottom:0;
	margin: auto;
	text-align:center;
	height:80px;
	overflow:hidden;
	width: 100%;
	text-align:center;
}
h1{
	color:#292929;
	font-size: 80px;
	margin:0;
	padding:0;
	line-height:80px;
	height:80px;
	position: relative;
	font-family: 'Montserrat', sans-serif;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	word-space: 4em;
	letter-spacing: 0.05em;
}
h1 span{
	position: relative;
	display: inline-block;
	transform: translateY(100%);
	transition: all 0.25s cubic-bezier(0.65, 0, 0.21, 1.47) 0s;
}

.titleWrapper.ready h1 span{
	transform: translateY(0%);
}

h1.first span{
	background:#fafafa;
	position:relative;
	z-index:5;
}
h1.second span{
	position:relative;
	z-index:1;
}

$num: 1;

@while $num < 20 {
    h1.first span:nth-of-type(#{$num}) {
			transition-delay: 0.02s * $num;
    }
		h1.second span:nth-of-type(#{$num}) {
			transition-delay: 0.03s * $num + 0.05;
    }

    $num: $num + 1;
}




.titleWrapper.ready:hover h1.first span{
	transform: translateY(-100%);
}
.titleWrapper.ready:hover h1.second span{
	transform: translateY(-100%);
}

title-swap.markdown

Title Swap

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License.

Thanks for sharing!

I noticed your code won't work in strict mode. That's simply because you forgot to put a var statement on $this variable creation.
You can have a look here to see my revision:
https://gist.github.com/naimkhalifa/283ec1145d5c1c055b904302c6a1932e/revisions