Apple Wireless Keyboard ddouble double first letters

My Apple Wireless Keyboard, bluetoothed to my iPad 4th Generation, will have double or tripple first letters. This just started in the last few weeks. It seems to happen when the keyboard must be "asleep" and just first typing. I'll type for a few minutes, and it works just fine. Then go away, and when I come back and type on it again, it will ddouble the first letter.
Anyone else? What did you do to fix it?

My Apple wireless keyboard also double types the first letter usually after I pause for several minutes.  It often happens when I am using a "search box".Then of course the double first letter makes the word unsearchable and I have to go back to delete that one letter. Annoying. I use the keyboard with an iPad Air. Based upon the "needs charging" comment above, I checked my batteries and found they were a little over 50%. But I changed them anyway. The double letter problem seemed to almost go away the first day with the new batteries. Now I am on my second day with the new batteries and the double first letter is beginning to appear with greater frequency. The keyboard doesn't have an on-off switch so maybe the problem is power related.

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