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1. Ps 11:1 seems to have repeated verb in Hebrew: "Run, run to your mountain like a bird." Am i right? Or is it plural verb?

2. Another example: Ps 118:13 (also verses 11, 18):

Here Net Bible comment is: "n Heb “pushing, you pushed me.” .

In Psalm 11:1, the ketiv is plural and the qere is singular.

(The ketiv is the actual written form in the text; the qere is the Massoretic correction.)

There's no repetition of the verb. Perhaps you're reading both forms side by side?

Psalm 118:13 & 18 exemplify a very common form of emphasis in Hebrew, where the author uses two different forms of the same verb (the infinitive absolute and a finite form) together to intensify the action. Psalm 118:11 is somewhat unusual: סַבּוּנִי and סְבָבוּנִי appear to be alternate forms for the same verb (3rd masculine plural qal perfect of סבב with 1st singular suffix). Why the same form with variant spellings is repeated as it is here, I don't know, but the repetition is reflected at least as early as LXX.

On Psalm 139:6, the brackets are there to note that one of the readings is the Kethib (what is written) and the other is the Qere (what is read). I've underlined the K and Q because you will also note that there is a standalone כ kaph and ק qoph in the Hebrew text you have copied (they are represented by the English letters K and Q). The translator always has to make a choice between these two. They do not both properly belong to the text.The Qere is intended as a potential replacement for the Kethib, but is not required. They are left in the text as notations for reading. In this particular case it is basically just a matter of orthography (how it is written and therefore pronounced) as far as I can tell. In either case, it simply means "wonderful" or as some have made the implicit explanation "too wonderful". Both texts (NASB and NET) use the same Hebrew as a basis, it was merely a choice of translational equivalence and not a matter of a different Hebrew word.