What causes double letters skips and wrong letters when typing

Os 10.9.5
Tried a new keyboard and still get skips, double letters, and wrong letters non adjacent to the intended key.

Boot into Safe Mode, Mac OS X: Starting up in Safe Mode, and see if the problem persists there.  If not then reboot normally and try again.

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