Wireless Keyboard slow and weird

I loved my Mac when I got it but lately the keyboard is very slow to display on the ssscreen and types strange by putting double letters and spacees. I have just bought a new keyboardd because I thought the oooldd one may have got damaged by the kids buttt the problem iiiis still there (as you can see). I ammmmm devastated as it has totally ruiiined the use of my lovellllly immaaaaaac. Can anyone help me?

Testing testing, I have just put the new batteries in it that came with the new keyboard and the display is still fairly slow and the characters are doubling as much. It is a pain as I can only type very slowly for the keyboard to work and I am a fast typist. It is very frustrating, I spend more time using the backspace than anything else!!! There is a slight improvement but not much.

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