First two characters erversed! (see what I mean?...)

On my MacBook Pro listed below I get this funny behavior: I go into a text field, or type in TextEdit (it makes no difference what) and sometimes, the first two characters I type get inverted, i.e. I want to type the word 'word' and, sure enough, I hit the keys in the right order: w-o-r-d, but when I look at my screen, I've managed to type 'owrd'. 'w' and 'o' have been entered into the buffer in the opposite order to what I typed.
And yes, I've been observing this over a number of days prior to my posting. I touch type, and I'm very accurate. The problem doesn't manifest itself with other machines.
Anyone else has observed something like it?
Many thanks, as always.

Hi Carolyn, thanks for the reply.
I mustn't have put it clearly in the original post: it makes no difference if I'm editing text in TextEdit or another app. I've had the issue with pretty much every text-capable app in OS X.
Unless, of course, I'm losing it, and I'm actually entering the characters in the wrong order. But I don't think so.
Still, it's a peculiar issue to pin down, as it's definitely very hard to replicate. I mean, how do you 'replicate' potentially making a mistake?
Here's a funny instance of it, from just earlier tonight (it's nearly midnight here in Greece):
I was in Finder and wanted to quickly open a new Finder window to see how much free space I've got on the hard disk (at the bottom of the Finder window) and CMD-Tab to Safari and look at a page I had loaded. So the key sequence was: CMD-N, CMD-Tab. What I got was the opposite: OS X first switched over to Safari, and duly opened a new, blank Safari window instead.
I had definitely pressed CMD-N before pressing CMD-N.

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