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Practice makes permanent

You’ve probably heard the phrase “Practice makes perfect” many times and maybe said it yourself a few times. It all sounds so motivating… but unfortunately it is wrong. Perfect implies that no more improvement can take place. The truth is, practice doesn’t automatically mean perfection. Practice guarantees permanence.

Whatever in life you repeat, good or bad, gets locked in. That’s why sloppy habits are so hard to unlearn (also read the article on GoDartsPro about The power of good habits). And it’s also why the right kind of practice can turn skills into second nature. The difference isn’t how much you practice. It’s how you practice.

What does happen is this:
Your brain builds shortcuts. Repeat something often enough, and it becomes your default – whether it’s correct or not. That’s why one darts player keeps improving while another keeps struggling with hitting the targets. Same time spent. Different habits reinforced.

What if my throw is bad – is it permanent?

If you’ve been throwing darts for a long time without the knowledge of how a solid throw should be done, it will be hard to completely change your throw. It is not impossible but will demand a lot of effort and maybe also some sacrifice. I remember my discussions with Mikko Laiho back in 2018 when we discussed throwing techniques and darts coaching. We were throwing darts together and i asked him to coach me to get rid of my snatchy throw, and he said:
– I can rebuild your throw but it will take 3-6 months, and you’re not allowed to throw a single dart during this time and only work with a small ball and other exercises. Are you up for it? Should we start?

Since I wasn’t playing darts in a team or had any bigger ambitions with my throwing, and just couldn’t cope with the thought of not throwing darts for 6 months, we continued to just play darts instead. My snatchy throw is still there even though I’ve tried to adapt a few of Mikko’s ideas to work on my throw.

Permanence: The real rule of practice

Practice is like pouring concrete where when it sets, it’s solid. In practice every repetition sets a little harder.

✅ Good habits become automatic
✅ Bad habits become automatic

Musicians isolate a single bar until it’s flawless. Athletes refine one tiny movement for weeks.
You type, drive, and ride a bike on instinct – because repetition made it permanent.

But why do so many darts players stick almost exclusively to playing 501s—as if it were the fastest route to improvement and success?

501 is the game we all love, but it trains everything at once and improves nothing in particular. Real progress comes from breaking the game down. Scoring, finishing, pressure shots, grouping, and consistency. Each skill deserves focused attention. When you isolate and polish these parts individually, you build them back together into a far stronger, more reliable overall game. Practise smart, not just familiar. That’s how real improvement happens. 🎯

This method builds real momentum. Each step brings a clearer feeling of progress and keeps your focus locked in until the target is reached. It requires more commitment, but the long-term rewards are significant.

Undoing mistakes takes far more effort than preventing them

One small error repeated hundreds of times doesn’t stay small. It becomes the baseline.

The famous basketball player Michael Jordan’s key message about practice is that quality trumps quantity:

“You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way”.

He emphasized practicing with game-like intensity and correct form to build confidence and routine, ensuring effort in practice translates to success in games. This approach focuses on quality over quantity, creating muscle memory for high-pressure situations, and achieving physical and mental peak performance.

Intentional Practice Changes Everything

More time doesn’t equal more progress. Better reps do. Intentional practice means:
✅ Focused repetition instead of autopilot
✅ Feedback before mistakes stick
✅ Slow, correct execution before speed

Slowing down may feel inefficient—but it builds clean patterns. Clean patterns later become fast, effortless movement. That’s how mastery is built.

How to Practice the Right Way

You don’t need longer sessions. You need better habits.

✅ Break skills into smaller parts
✅ Prioritize accuracy before speed
✅ Correct mistakes immediately
✅ Choose quality over quantity—every time

Each rep should move you forward, not reinforce what holds you back.
The proof Is Everywhere. High-level performance isn’t luck, It’s practice made permanent.

Use a Darts Coach

If you’re still unsure about your technique, consider working with a local or online darts coach. A few focused sessions can help you get the fundamentals right from the start, or know what changes to make and how to. More and more coaches now use GoDartsPro as part of their coaching setup, which means you can keep practising on the platform while your coach analyses your stats and creates personalised training plans based on your data.

If you don’t currently have a coach, just email info@godartspro.com and I’ll help connect you with one.

People regularly spend hundreds of euros on a personal trainer at the gym, yet many darts players hesitate to invest in coaching for their throw. If you’re serious about improving and committed to your darts journey, working with a coach is one of the smartest investments you can make.

Take this with You:

✅ Practice doesn’t guarantee perfection.
✅ Perfection is a myth.
✅ Practice guarantees permanence.
✅ Whatever you repeat becomes your default.

If practice makes permanent, if practice drives actions into muscle memory, it’s better to do it slow and right than fast and not quite right. There’s a great book that digs deeper into this theory that I highly recommend:
Practice Perfect – Doug Lemov/Erica Woolway/Katie Yezzi

So the real question isn’t:
“How much should I practice?”

It’s:
“What am I practicing into permanence?”

Choose wisely. Every rep counts.
Enjoy your darts and make it count!
– Anders
Founder of GoDartsPro

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What to practise to improve

If you watched the PDC World Darts Championship, you’ve seen how top players punish every chance, especially with sharp two-dart finishes from 90 and below. That “pop-pop” efficiency doesn’t come from just playing endless 501s. It comes from focused checkout training, where every opportunity to finish counts.

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The basics – your stance, grip and throw

First of all, if you are new to darts you have to work hard on the basics. Are your darts slipping in to the 5 and 1 segement to often, or even worse, 18 and 12? Then you should put in a lot of focused training to get the mechanics right.

Make sure you’ve got a solid stance, good balance, and a firm but smooth and relaxed follow through. If you don’t know what this means or how to get it, search on YouTube and you’ll find many good videos about the grip, stance, and the major parts of a nice throw.

Or as the famous basket ball player Michael Jordan once said:

”You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise.”

Use a darts coach

If you still are uncertain, look up a local darts coach or online darts coach and do some dedicated training with the coach to get the basics right. More and more darts coaches now also use GoDartsPro as a tool for coaching their players. This way you can continue to practise on GoDartsPro and your darts coach will be able to analyse your training stats, and provide you with custom training plans.
If you don’t have any darts coach to contact, send an email to info@godartspro.com and I’ll connect you with one.

People pay €€€ to get a Personal Trainer for working out in a gym but still too many darts players doesn’t contact a darts coach to work on their throw. If you are dedicated and serious about darts, this is something we highly recommend.

2-dart finishes wins most legs

When we’re watching the games at home or at the venue, we all want to see the big 3-dart-combinations like 170, 167 or 132, but as a player your main focus is to win the match. So what should we practise to win more legs?

Power-scoring

Of course, to get down to a finish, you have to be able to score heavily or the oppenent will be down to a finish before you’re even at 170.
So what to practise to become a good scorer?
You need to throw straight (hit the 20 segment)
You have to be able to group the darts and keep the hit area tight
You need to be able to switch targets when your main target is blocked

For scoring-training there are many different games you can use. Short games like Jackpot, Streak or pure scoring games like High-Score or Dedication should be on your daily/weekly list of games. You need to practise to score good, throw after throw, and a good way is to find fun games to do this and to monitor your improvement. Play the High-Score game several times per month, month after month, and you can monitor your progress with the stats in the game.

Throwing straight

One of the most common problem for darts players is the ability to throw the darts straight.
First dart might go into the number 5 field and then you overcompensate and the next one goes into number 1. Feels familiar? Again, look up a darts coach and let them watch you throw. There might be minor things to adjust, like the elbow or the release, to get your darts more straight.
You can also set up a camera, like a smart phone with slow motion option to watch your throw from different angles. Do this regularly and try to do minor adjustments at a time to see how it changes your darts in the board.

You can also nail a string from Double 20 hanging down over the board, over the bullseye and down to Double 3. Then aim for the string and try to hit it repeatedly.

Play the game Align on GoDartsPro to work on throwing your darts straight from Double 20 down to Double 3 and back again.

Grouping the darts

For training to group the darts there are some really good games on GoDartsPro, like A1, Mikko’s Megatrain, For Four, Big Singles, and Even Flow. Try these games with their different options to find games that feels inspiring, but yet challenges you during your training session.

Switching targets

When it comes to switching there are two games that stands out. The first and best in my opinion is the PowerSwitch game with the Bundle option. This will promote when you hit a big treble to let you continue to focus on the target, and try to hit it no matter how blocked the treble can be. Sometimes when playing 501’s your only chance to leave a finish is to hit a certain treble, even if it is blocked by previous darts.
Then on the scoring throw, you have the pressure to score good to mirror your first good switching score.
The 2nd game is the SwitchBlade. A short and effective game that you should use daily.

2-darts-checkout games

When it comes to practise 2-darts-finishes there are some really good games as well. First the Checkout Challenge, where the default option starts at 21 and you throw for 20 minutes. If you finish the 21 score your next checkout is 31. If you miss 31, you go down one and 30 is your next checkout. You’ll try to finish as high checkout as possible in 20 minutes. It is a great game to also use regularly.
Other games like Catch 40, Finishing star, Finishing Range, Matchplay Checkouts, Stars & Stripes, Finish & Lock etc are also good games to use daily.

Use the leaderboards on GoDartsPro

One of all advantages of GoDartsPro are all the leaderboards. Find one or two for your favourite games and work hard to reach the leaderboards. For example, the Checkout Challenge. If you haven’t yet tried it, play it once and try to reach the leaderboard. If you can’t, try to beat your best score.
When you’re at the leaderboard, focus on the score above you in the leaderboard, and try to beat it. When you do, take some rest. You’ve deserved it.

Now go to Game On-page and make it count!

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Use the leaderboards to improve in darts

On GoDartsPro we’ve got leaderboards all over the place. In the Premium League, Monthly Challenges, Enduro Challenge, Team’s areas and also integrated in some of our popular games. But is it all just for fun or is there some deeper meaning to them? Let’s find out!

What’s up with the leaderboards!?

Some members might look at the leaderboards briefly without really paying attention or using it to benefit their darts training. It is just a bunch of members, flags, scores that also change from time to time.
But there’s a deeper meaning to them and the members who knows how to use them have another tool in their pocket for their darts training.

Spending hours practising darts on your own can be boring, and sometimes really hard to keep the focus, but that can still be the best way forward. If you do it the right way!
Just playing bots in 501’s will make you improve over time, but there’s better ways to spend your hours doing your training.

To get the most out of your training you should practise with intention, fully focused and with a clear goal.

Smart leaderboard strategy

So to use the leaderboards to your advantage, pick a leaderboard on GoDartsPro – let’s say the Premium League leaderboard for the game Exponential Bundle. Check out the scores and then click the Play the game button. The Premium League format is explained more in detail below, but once you’ve played it a few times you will see how your total score is compared to the leaderboard. It shows your best 10 sessions the past 30 days, so make sure to play the game at least 10 times in a few days to fill up the scoring slots.

Once you have filled up all the 10 scores, look at the red score in your list of score and try to beat that.

Once your total score is shown in the leaderboard, look at the player above you in the list and try to beat that score. Repeat and work your way to the top of the leaderboard, and once your in #1 – celebrate and have some rest!

Buy constantly working to beat your worst score or the player’s score in the list above you, you will be focused, practise with intention, working with a clear goal in mind!

When you’ve done this for a while with a game and maybe having trouble improving your scores, pick a new game and use the same strategy there. I’ve talked to a few well known PDC players who use this strategy on GoDartsPro regularly, to get a better meaning with their hours at the board. If it is good strategy for them, I think it is a good strategy for most of you out there!

There are many games available to pick games suitable for your current level!

Premium League leaderboards

In the Premium League you can choose between 11 games and the players scores in the leaderboard are based on the 10 best sessions the past 30 days! This is a special feature used in a few leaderboards on GoDartsPro. Since it shows the 10 best the past 30 days means that it is always fresh, updated regularly, and if you don’t play the game for a while your ranking in the leaderboard will drop.

And if you practise with intent, focused and with a clear goal regularly – you will improve faster!

The red score in your list of scores is the one you should focus on. This is your worst score and the score to beat to improve your total score. The green score is your best score and if you’re in a good game session go for this and try to beat it!

The Monthly Challenges

The Monthly Challenges on GoDartsPro has got many games to choose from and each starts from zero first thing every month. For these leaderboards we also have the Challenge Ranking Points (CRP) to practise hard for over the year.
In the section for the Monthly Challenges you will also see a special leaderboard for the members who are working hardest with the Virtual Coach on GoDartsPro!

If you have connected and became friends with other members on GoDartsPro you can also see specific leaderboards among your friends. That’s a great way to use social darts training to improve!

The Enduro Challenge

The Enduro Challenge was introduced in 2022 since I heard many members complaining they found it hard to stay inspired to practise during the summer.

So we came up with the format of 5 different games to play during 10 weeks (end of June to start of September). The games can be played as many times as you want to during the week and the best score will represent the score for that game that week. For every game type you play each week, you get a ticket. So maximum 5 tickets each week and maximum 50 tickets after 10 weeks. Each week there will be winners randomly picked who will win prizes from the sponsors.

Team Leaderbords

On GoDartsPro, clubs/teams/friends can set up a Team license to use with their coach/team manager. In their area they have several leaderboards where only the team players is shown to have their internal battles.

In-game Leaderboards

In some popular games you will also see leaderboards on the startpage of the game. These are also based on the best scores the past 30 days so if you stop playing the game, your score will drop out of the game.
When you select a game like this, for example the Master-501, pay attention to the leaderboard. If you’re already in the leaderboard, focus on the players result just above you in the list and try to beat it. Otherwise check the score in the bottom and try to beat that to enter the list.

Conclusions

So now you’ve found another tool on GoDartsPro to use in your darting journey. Make sure to vary the games, plan your training and vary the intensity of your training to get the most out of it.

Do you miss a leaderboard for your favourite game on GoDartsPro?
Send an email and request it to be added!

Enjoy your darts!
/Anders
Founder of GoDartsPro

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Work on your mindset as a darts player

Regardless of the current level of a darts player, we all want to win. We want to win the next session of the Killer game with friends, next game at the club, a local tournament or the final in Q-School to get the tour card. But once you reach a certain level, it is not the physical talent that separates good darts players from the great ones… it’s their mindset!

Many darts players thinks it is all about practising as much as possible, and attending as many tournaments as possible. Like that’s the only way to improve and become a better darts player. But we all want to win, and most of us puts in so many hours, throwing thousands of darts everyday. So what is the magic secret to succes?

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Get the right mindset

Change your mindset to focus on HOW TO WIN instead of wanting to win!

If you focus more on the process in HOW TO WIN, rather than the outcome, you focus more on the things you as a darts player can control. You can not just decide to win, but you can focus on the necessary things that will make you win more. As you’ve probably heard a few times, the mental part is very important in darts. That’s why it is so important for you to get the right mentality and mindset towards yourself and your journey as a darts player.

Darts players who only focus on wanting to win, are more susceptible to fear and anxiety. “I must win, or…” The fear of failure steps in and digs a big whole in your confidence… Focusing on winning will more likely put yourself under more pressure and stress and can do a lot of harm to your progress as a darts player.

So – FOCUS ON THE PROCESS!

So what things can you control and how to use them for you?
It is good to make a list of things you can control that will put you in a good position to win more matches.
What things can you control during the weeks during training? What things can you control during a real match?

For the things you can control during training, define the actions you need to do, to get success and win more games. A number of dedicated training sessions where you focus on scoring, finishing, switching etc. But maybe also how to improve your counting and memorizing the different preferred checkouts. For endurance and stamina, schedule a few powerwalks and gym sessions, so you can keep your focus throughout the tournament. Visualization can do wonders for many athletes, so maybe dedicate time for it throughout the week.

When it comes to things to control during a real match, figure out a few things to focus on instead of focusing of the outcome of the game. If you easily get nervous during games, find ways to focus on your breathing instead. Get yourself a mantra to repeat for yourself when you’re waiting for the opponent to finish their throw. You can’t control how the opponent are throwing, so don’t watch him/her. Focus on the things you can control.

How do you respond to mistakes?

Many players gets upset and gesticulates after a mistake, making the mistake even more evident and etched into your brain. By focusing on the mistakes like this, they will eat your mindset up and get permanent. Mistakes are inevitable, and we all do them. You will also see players like Michael van Gerwen and Luke Littler making mistakes (but not that often).
Many players have a fear of doing mistakes, but trying to avoid mistakes can do more harm than just making them in the first place. If you throw darts and try to avoid mistakes, you hold yourself back and will underperform. We’ve all been into the situation where we need to hit big single 20 and the only thing we think is: Don’t hit number 5 or 1. Most likely the dart sits perfectly in number 5 or number 1.

Accept the mistakes as natural parts of your success

Recognize the mistakes you do as a darts player, learn to accept them, and learn from them to improve moving forward. By changing the way you look at mistakes, will improve your game over time. Don’t play to avoid mistakes, play to succeed. Failure is natural if you are striving to deliver big results. During practise, accept the mistakes. After a real match, learn from the mistakes.

As J.K. Rowling wisely nailed it,
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all — in which case you fail by default.”

After experiencing misstakes or failure, we automatically never want to fail again. Especially at the thing we failed at. As a result, we sometimes set subconscious goals like, “Now hit that finishingdouble, or you’ll end up loosing like last time.” Psychologists call this “prevention” or “avoidance” motivation. But avoidance motivation tends to induce anxiety from fear of the potential negative outcome, which consequently worsen the performance. This connection explains why darts players or other athletes motivated by avoidance are more likely to choke under pressure.

Research also suggests you can “edit out” previous failures by visualizing them getting smaller, or “change” your memories of the failures with funny details. Each time we recall something, we change our memory of it. By associating your failure with something less weighty, you may dull its detriment on your brain and improve subsequent performance. Same thing, but opposite, goes with success. By recognizing (celebrating) success and small progress, your brain will make the memory stronger and you will be more associated with success.

Set positive goals and celebrate small progress

Recognizing your progress does two things: it extends the enjoyment of your achievement and it increases your motivation.
As we move closer to our goals as a darts player, both our motivation and performance surge. Measuring and celebrating our progress will help us capitalize on this acceleration. Read more about this Effective goal setting strategy.

The importance of a solid confidence

You’ve probably heard that it is important to build up a confidence when it comes to darts. But it is also important to reflect on where you get your confidence from. If you only have “performance confidence”, that is you only feel confidence when you nail a few important doubles or do a few big checkouts.
By practising focused in a structured way over time, you will slowly build up a solid confidence that will be more reluctant to minor setbacks. Knowing you’ve done all you can to be the best player you can be, will make a big difference. It’s when you know that you could have done a better preparation, a better homework, your confidence will sway and your mind will be filled with doubt.

Conclusion

Wanting to win is of course NOT a bad thing. We all want to win. But if you shift your focus to just wanting to win, and get into all the details in your preparations before the match, you increase your chances to win. Winning is such a huge part for most players, why they spend so many hours throwing darts. Still, so few are open minded and try to find the smartest way possible to start winning more. So open up your eyes, start thinking, be curious and take the lead!
Make it count!

Anders Östman
Founder Of GoDartsPro

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Enhancing your darts skills: a guide to faster improvement

The million dollar question: How to improve in darts as fast as possible?!
I regularly get questions like this from new members who are eager to get good enough for joining a team, playing a tournament or just humiliate their friends at next night out playing darts. “Can you look at my stats and see if I practise enough and the right games?” is also something that pops up in the mail every now and then. Let’s look at a few things that generally will be a good start for your darts career.

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1 – A start for your darts career

On GoDartsPro there are members who just started playing darts after watching the World Darts Championship, wanting to be as good as Luke Littler, as fast possible. There are also members here who played at the World Darts Championship this year. So there are wide range of levels here.

When it comes to effective darts training you will get the most out of it if you practise games suitable for your current level! A good start is therefore to first figure out your own current level, to understand how to continue to practise in best possible way. Here are a few things you can start out with:

a) Play the High-Score game to evaluate your scoring power

By playing the High-Score game as evaluation, at least a few hundred darts (but better is thousands of darts, from several training sessions over a period of time of course), will provide you with your own scoring average, without any doubles involved. If you’re an absolute beginner, playing games that includes hitting doubles is not recommended at all. It can be very frustrating throwing many darts completely missing the double and it won’t do you much good. You will only lose your confidence and probably interest in darts.
By only trying to score as much as possible you will at least always get scores and being able to finish the game in reasonable time, and will slowly build up your confidence and will to improve and to practise more.

b) Play the JDC Challenge game to get your current level

The JDC Challenge game is used by the juniors playing in academies all over the world, to find out their current level. The game consists of 3 different segments:

1) Hitting targets 10-15
2) Doubles around the board
3) Hitting targets 15-20

After you finished the game you will not only get a total score, but you will also see which of the 8 levels you reached and will get an indication of your current level. Read the article about the JDC, the game and features to understand their concept with the levels.

c) Get your MICO-Factor to see your level

The MICO-Factor concept was invented by Mikko Laiho (R.I.P), who was a professional darts coach at Winmau for some of their players. Together we developed this fantastic and simple way to measure your skill level. There are 11 MICO-Factor games to choose from and the MICO-Factor range is between 0 and 40.
When you’ve played one of the games 5 times, you will get your MICO-factor for that game.
When you’ve played five MICO-Factor games, 5 times each, you will get your own personal MICO-factor.

If you are a complete beginner, some of the games in the MICO-Factor family will be tough for you, but we recommend to pick these as a start to get your initial MICO-factor: Exponential Bundle, The Three Stooges, Cricket Bundle, 11-19 Big Bundle, and Countdown 90

Hear Mikko talk about the MICO-Factor concept here!

With your current level figured out and in mind, we can continue to the next step.

2 – Set up a start for your training plan

This is a rough division of the different levels and from the results you’ve got from the games above, to give you an idea of what you should continue to practice. Remember that this is referring to an average over time (at least 10 game sessions) and not just after one game.

2a) Find your current level

Scoring average in the High-Score game:

Up to average 35 -> Novice
35 to 60 -> Intermediate
60 to 80 -> Advanced
80 to 100 -> Expert
100 and above -> Professional

Score in the JDC Challenge game:

Up to 300 -> Novice
300 to 700 -> Intermediate
700 to 1000 -> Advanced
1000 to 1250 -> Expert
1250 and above -> Professional

MICO-Factor:

Up to 16 -> Novice
16 to 24 -> Intermediate
24 to 28 -> Advanced
28 to 32 -> Expert
32 and above -> Professional

Again, this is a rough division to give you an hint. And of course, you might get an average for the JDC Callenge game indicating you’re an Advanced player, yet only an Intermediate player according to the MICO-factor. That’s darts and especially when there are different types of games, with different rules and targets.
So please, don’t beat yourself up or thinking of suing me because of this…

2b) What to start training depending on your level

For all levels, I highly recommend you to visit the Support Area on GoDartsPro, where you’ll find many training articles as well as videos about the games.

Novice

I would say it is best for Novice players to continue to play different easier games to build up a confidence and to have fun. It must be good fun in the beginning, otherwise it is easy to lose focus and do something else. There is an article with games suitable for new players that I recommend you to start with.
Mix playing these with the High-Score game and the JDC Challenge game to slowly increase your average bit by bit. Play the games to the end of the month trying to get as high average as possible. Then work hard the following month to increase that average – and repeat… You can also play different FUN GAMES with your friends and family to keep up the spirit and joy with darts!
There’s also a good grouping game called A1 that can be tough to finish but will do wonders for your skills after a while. Don’t give up if you can’t finish the game in 45 minutes or so, but remember to take a short pause after each 20-30 minutes.
You could also play the Dedication game selecting different targets and see how many hits you get after 100 darts for example. This is a great game to focus on your throwing motion and to really focus on one target for many throws, to build up a solid throw.

Intermediate

Now you’re starting to get somewhere with your training. Now it is time to step it up.
You should definitely work with the different MICO-Factor games and play them all (except the Greenzone game which is intended for players with a special Greenzone board). Work hard to increase your MICO-factor decimal by decimal. Remember that the higher MICO-factor you get, the harder it will be to increase it. Then you can work to increase your MICO-Factor the past 30 days instead.

The MasterClass is a great concept to start using as well. There’s only one focus with the MasterClass: To finish the game in front of you, to unlock the next. Even the first game can demand a few tries before you manage to finish it so make sure to focus and work hard to finish it. Then the next one…

It is also time to start working with the Virtual Coach. Enter the initial form to give the coach information about your goals and time for practicee, and make sure to finish the initial games to give the coach enough statistics to start working for you.

Advanced

Continue to practise with the Virtual Coach and try to finish the levels and games of the MasterClass.
Make sure to play the Crown Judgement game as soon as the Virtual Coach alerts you to. It is also time to work more with different Finishing games. Here’s another list with Finishing games to choose from.

Expert

Besides playing the different games in under the Advanced-section above, I also suggest you to regularly play the Mikko’s Megatrain game. That’s a great game which hopefully will give you a challenge!

3) Learn from other players

If you’re part of a darts team or club, watch the other players play and practise and don’t hesitate to ask questions. Most darts players are very positive to share their thoughts and ideas to improve. Every now and then you’ll meet someone that just say “Just throw more darts” or “I never practise, I’ve only played 501’s ” etc. But if you read a few articles on GoDartsPro you should know by now there are better ways to practise darts than that…

Check out the Public Playlists on GoDartsPro and try to find a few playlists with games that you enjoy and can add to your daily training regime. There are many good darts players on GoDartsPro who also shares their playlists and favourite games! Use them!

Summary

When it comes to darts you need to give it time. The improvement will come in different phases and sometimes it will feel like you’re going backwards in your development. Always remember, Darts is not a sprint – It is a marathon!. There are so many ways to practise darts, and even more ways people THINK is good darts training. Make sure to always look at your darts training with objective eyes. Am I doing everything to improve as fast as possible!? Remember there are also ways to make your training more challenging!

The most important thing to remember when it comes to darts and how to improve is that you must enjoy your darts! If you play games or levels that are too hard (or easy) for your current level, it will not be inspiring and fun after a few throws.
That’s why it is so important for you to first figure out your current level, and then practise the games suitable for you. If you visit different darts forums or darts groups on Facebook, and see a beginner asking for advice, more than often someone (or many) suggests to play Bob’s 27 or to just play 501’s and give it time! That is so wrong and frustrating to read. Beginners who start to play the Bob’s 27 will soon be really frustrated, loose focus, and probably inspiration to continue to play darts. That’s why it is so important for you to find fun, good training games that are intended for your level.

So whatever you do, ENJOY YOUR DARTS!

Anders
Founder of GoDartsPro

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Why am I not improving in darts even though I’m practising much?

There are people who practise darts a lot and still they don’t seem to be improving at all. Shouldn’t practice make you better? What’s wrong?
These are thoughts and questions members/players often emails about, wondering what they’re doing wrong.

This could be compared to: walking is a good exercise but it doesn’t make you better in running. Darts practice should always be focused and even intense to get the best out of you.
You need to have a hunger. You need to be challenged.
But how can we add this to darts training?

Simulating the competition

One thing a lot of people forget is that practice should be simulating competition with the
a) pressure involved,
b) the time you practice should be equal to a normal competition and that
c) you might not want to only measure your form, but actually increase it

c1) The pressure is very good tool when practicing. There are times that you will not need it as warming up the hand or just getting the feel of the board/venue etc., but solitary home practice should 95% of times require some sort of pressure.
So when you get through of the task you’ve given yourself (or tasks you’ve been given by the Virtual Coach, you feel that you’ve achieved something, you feel like winning a match. But you need to want this. You need to have a hunger, a will to win.

c2) Time is a very important thing. Think about schools in Finland, which is repeatedly considered the best education system in the world: there is 15 minutes long interval/recess after every 45 minutes of teaching.

There are numerous studies and experiments showing that you learn much better if you split up the practice in shorter sections. But there are also numerous studies showing that WHEN you practise during the day is just as important. It is much more effective if you can practise in the morning when you’re relaxed and (hopefully) had a good night sleep, than trying to squeeze in some training after school or work, when you’re head is filled with everything that’s happened during the day. There’s a very interesting book called “Talent is overrated” by Geoff Colvin, that digs deeper into this matter. Read it, it is a great book!

Also, many studies shows that after a physical activity (for example a 20-30 minutes power-walk or other physical exercise), you’ll learn things faster, better finding focus, be more creative, and also reducing symptoms of anxiety. All things good when it comes to darts that is.

All the matches in TV are played with the intervals. So why practice ever more than 45 minutes on the row? So have your breaks, and don’t damage nor tire your hand and mind!

c3) Measuring your form at practice is two-bladed sword. In practice you’re lacking the adrenaline, the testosterone and most importantly the killer instinct.
So why play 501’s in practice to see how good form they are – at all?

You know you need from time to time to be able to squeeze a 15 darter in that deciding leg without practising it.

Playing only 501’s can actually leave a scar-tissue to your mind, if things are not going well. But when on song, when the hand is warm, when the mind is clear and darting life is easy like a Sunday morning, then it’s good to do a few 501’s just to show yourself that yes, you can do it! So leave the 501’s just for as a treat or pudding/dessert in the tail end of your well gone practice session.

Also, make sure to read our article “Bridge the gap between practice and match”!

Interesting practice with suitable goals

Mikko Laiho studied darts practice for over 25 years, and coached players on a high-level for several years. He noticed that differences in practice between equal players in competition are remarkable. For certain practice games, the results can differ between players A and B 30% towards A, when in the other game 30% for the player B. Statistically even 5% change in the results would be reckoned. So the same thing which suits to other isn’t the best one for the other.

We know though that you should do practicing games which is most suitable for you. That helps training being interesting. It helps you staying focused. On GoDartsPro there are many different games for all kinds of levels. You should give them all a go and see which games you like and which are most suitable for your current level. The best games are the ones that you really need to put in all effort and focus to be able to finish them or to get a decent score.

It is way better to try to beat your current average scores rather than just chasing to beat your high-score for a certain game. That’s why we in games like High-Score show your average month by month, so you always can try to beat your previous months average.

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This will give you small victories more often and will build up your confidence and your mind-set that you can win and that you are a winner.

From January 2025 this kind of periodical stats is also available in the popular JDC Challenge game.

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One of the toughest advices from the Virtual Coach for the GoDartsPro members to follow, is: TAKE A DAY OR TWO WITHOUT DARTS!
This is more important than most players understand. A day or two without darts will get you a hunger and a strong will to play darts better than ever before, and you also feel more alert and focused during the session. Your body and mind needs rest so skipping throwing darts one or two days per week is highly recommended. There are other things you can practise during these days to make you a better darts player. If you’re not 100% sure about the checkout table, you can study that for a few hours. Going to the gym, getting out for a long power-walk, or trying some other sport, will surely all benefit you as a darts player. There are many ways you can improve as a darts player. Be open-minded and creative and you’ll get the slight edge!

In the end, to get the most out of your darts training, you should try to make it so interesting and enjoyable that you can’t wait to get back to board!
That “Just one more time” is the best feeling for improvement…
Try to find that urge, that hunger in your next training session!

Text: Mikko Laiho / Anders Östman

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Darts is not a sprint – It is a Marathon!

We’ve been pushing this since the start of GoDartsPro, and my late colleague Mikko Laiho said to me many times: Darts is not a sprint – It is a Marathon!
when I was frustrated about not improving or just unable to finish one of his many new games. But what does it mean, and how to use it in your favour for your darts training?!

I regularly get messages from members who signed up and started to use GoDartsPro and love the games, and the different training concepts. But after just a few months (or even weeks), they’re getting frustrated that they’re not improving as fast as they would like to, comparing themselves with the more experienced players at the club or even at TV.

I check their accounts and see what they’ve been doing. Often they’ve been spending several hours per day, every day, playing different games on GoDartsPro. It isn’t that the actions that are completely wrong (other that they should take a day off or two per week to not over-practice). It’s that they don’t keep doing them over time.

As written in the great book “Slight Edge” by Jeff Olson that I read during Christmas:

“The truth is, what you do matters. What you do today matters. What you do every day matters. Successful people just do the things that seem to make no difference in the act of doing them and they do them over and over again, until the compound kicks in”.

Jeff Olson also writes:

“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do.”

SUCCESS REQUIRES RELENTLESS ACTION!

It is the same thing with going to the gym. You don’t see or feel any difference after a few visits to the gym (other than just muscle ache), but if you continue to go there several days per week to workout, things will suddenly make a difference. Jeff also writes “The choices you make today won’t affect where you are in life in the short-term, but they determine where you end up in life in the long-term.”

This is exactly what you can expect about darts training!

You need to put in the hours regularly, practising focused and with intention to see any results over time. It is much better to practise 1 hour per day 5 days per week, than for 5 hours 1 day per week.
If you’re not practising fully focused, it is also so easy to get stuck in the rut of just throwing the darts without 100% meaning, which will lead to bad habits. Instead, we all should work on adding good habits to our daily routines (read article here) and do them with our full intention.

It is probably in the human nature to try to take short-cuts. To be honest, I do it myself regularly…
But when it comes to the things you really care about and want to achieve, there are no magic shortcuts.

Luckily, there are things that makes things easier for darts players nowadays, call it shortcuts if you want.

Make sure to enjoy your training sessions

Most of the games and training concepts on GoDartsPro are fun to play, and inspiring to try to master. We’ve added many gamification features to make you feel “Just one more time and I will do better”.

By making darts training fun to do every day, it is easier to do these important training routines time and time again, and making them your good habits. Make sure to tryout most of the games on GoDartsPro. There are more than 100 games available so not every game will be fun or suitable for your current level.

On the GAME ON page where you’ll find all the games, just click the small square in top right of a game image (see image above) to mark it as a favourite and you will easily find it next time. The small square will change to a red heart showing it is one of your favourites. Then you can easily show all your favourite games by clicking the round heart in the top right of the header of the website. You can also make playlist of your favourite games to play, and maybe different playlists to use different days.

As mentioned before, If you’re open minded to improve in different ways, I recommend you to read the “Slight Edge” book, if not only for your darts training, read it for positive thinking in your life and other reasons. The book explains that consistent daily habits, even if they appear to have minimal impact in the short-term, compound over time and can lead to significant positive outcomes.

How to make my training sessions more engaging and fun?

Here are a few tools on GoDartsPro you can use on a regular basis to make your darts training more engaging, more focused and more fun:
1) Practise with the Virtual Coach
2) Play a game you haven’t tried yet
3) Use the monthly challenges to try to better your positions in the leaderboard
4) Premium League is a very inspiring and smart way to practise
5) Create your own playlists and create different playlists for different days or types of sessions
6) Try public playlists by other members
7) Use the MasterClass concept and finish game by game
8) Plan your training with the training log
9) Invite friends to GoDartsPro and use your own challenges to inspire you to practise
10) Play the FUN GAMES against your friends and family to enjoy your darts

Train your brain to focus better

Another thing I hear many times from the members on GoDartsPro or darts players I meet at tournaments or different events, is that they have a hard time to keep their focus during their training sessions. They say that they start out the training session really focused after a good warm-up, but only after 10 minutes or so, their focus drop and they start to think about other things in life. The school, work, next game, girlfriend/boyfriend, bills etc.

That’s very common and that’s also why many games on GoDartsPro are short but highly effective games. But that’s also something to be aware of when you’re playing longer games, to notice when the focus drops to take a short break for 5 minutes.

Are you usually having a hard time focusing? It is probably because you never trained your brain to focus.
Your daily life is also probably full of distractions. If you’re always distracted and occupied by your phone, social media and playing games, starting to meditate or use visualization for example, will make it easier for you to get into the zone with 100% focus.

Actually, a large study 2005 of 4,715 adults suggests that by spending 15 minutes a day, 5 days a week, on brain training activities will improve concentration.

By using brain training games, you can develop a better short-term memory, and problem-solving skills.
You can use games like sudoku or different word puzzles to practise problem-solving and learn how to focus on different tasks. You can also use different darts maths tools to learn the checkouts or practise pure darts maths.

We also got a great game called Marathon – try it out today!

Anders
Founder Of GoDartsPro

“Success does not lead to happiness — it’s the other way around.”

– Jeff Olson

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Plan your darts training!

Many darts players (especially beginners) don’t really have an intention or plan for their training. They just go to their board, pick up their darts and start to chuck them at treble 20 until they get bored and then start a few legs of 501 against a bot. Eventually they will of course improve but most of us are here to improve as fast as possible.

First of all, a well-designed training plan is something that will bring you closer to your goals for darts. If you start to look at your training sessions more seriously and a try to adapt a few smarter ways to spend your hours at the board, you’ll get many benefits. You will be more inspired to learn and to improve, you’ll boost your self confidence and much more. Therefore you will also improve faster. We highly recommend players who’re serious about darts to develop a training schedule and periodization plan and try to stick to it.

New tools to plan your training

On the Training log page on GoDartsPro (found in the drop-down-menu when you click your profile icon top right on the website) you can now add details to your following weeks and months to plan your training days. You can also mark dates when you plan to avoid darts training and instead maybe going to the gym, spinning class etc. This will also show an honest view of how much you are able to practise darts per week. Its purpose is to give you a birds-eye view of how you’re training.

Just click on the dates in the calendar and a dialog will appear where you can enter the details you want for your day. Here you can set goals for how many darts you plan to throw, game sessions to play and you can also attach a certain playlist for the day. This way you can plan your week and have different days in the week to practise finishing, power-scoring etc. Be creative and make your training more fun! And don’t worry, a poor plan is almost always better than no plan at all.

Make sure also to vary your plan for number of thrown darts and games to play during the week and also vary the intensity during the week. Make sure to have days when you really push yourself with a few tougher (and maybe longer) games as well as days where you try out new games or play games you know you’re good at. This way you’ll adapt something called periodization training which is commonly used in many other sports.

Your daily plans reminder

When you have plans for the current day you will get a popup showing what you’ve planned for the day. How many darts you estimated or planned for the day and how many games. As you play during the day you will see how many darts and games you have left for your daily goal.
If you have attached a playlist you will be able to click a button to start the playlist directly. The same goes for the Virtual Coach. When you select the Virtual Coach icon in the icon-gallery, you’ll also have a button to start work with the Virtual Coach right away.

Periodization training

The goal of periodization training is to maximize the players performance by gradually increasing the intensity in exchange for volume-loading over time, helping the client reach their peak potential.

It is also defined as the planned manipulation of training variables (hours, darts thrown, intensity) in order to maximize training adaptations and to prevent the onset of overtraining syndrome.

There are many interesting articles about periodization training and if you’re interested to learn more about this, just Google for periodization training. For example, for archers this is commonly used to maximise their training and to plan to reach their peak performance for an important competition. The two Time Olympic Archery Medalist Jake Kaminski, wrote a book (“Training for archery”) about his way to adapt periodization training and also got a few interesting videos about it.

Allowing for rest and recovery

When looking at the stats from members on GoDartsPro, taking a day or two off from darts, for rest and recovery, seems to be the hardest part for most of us (even though the Virtual Coach suggests it every now and then).

Rest and recovery are crucial for most players to prevent overuse injuries and burnout. It’s essential to listen to the body and take rest days when needed. Darts players should plan for at least one or two rest days per week, allowing the muscles to recover and reducing the risk of injury.

Rest and recovery can also include stretching to help relieve muscle tension and prevent soreness. You can also benefit from physiotherapy or massage therapy to treat or prevent injuries. Planning for days of recovery or other training forms than darts will give you a positive injection when you’re back at the board with a fresh mind.

Conclusions

We all know how easy it is to have plans for any kind of training or exercises, but it is tougher to maintain them and to stick to the plan. When you go to the gym in January it can be crowded since so many want to start out a new habit for the year. But after a few weeks there are less and less people showing up, and they probably have thousands of “good” reasons why they don’t continue to go to the gym…

But if you really want to improve on a steady basis, make a plan for the following weeks, fill out the training calendar with different goals and playlists, and you’ll make it easier for yourself to stick to it. Whenever you login to GoDartsPro you will your pre set plan for the day, reminding you that you’re on a journey to become the best darts player you can be.

I hope you find this new tool to plan your training useful and that you will incorporate this to your calendar on GoDartsPro. I’m always open for suggestions, so please send me an email or direct message on social media to discuss how to improve it even more for your training.

Here are a few other articles I recommend you to read:

The Power Of Good Habits

How to make your darts training more effective

Make your darts training more challenging

Bridge the gap between practice and match

Enjoy your darts and make it count!

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The game Count-up has been updated

Every now and then old games on GoDartsPro will be updated with a new design and with added features. This time the well known game Count-Up has been updated and now also got support for a Scolia device to auto-track the darts for you.

GoDartsPro - Count-up darts training game

Game rules for Count-up

This Count-up game is useful and can be fun for every darts player, from beginners to professionals. The rules are simple. In the options screen you select a number and then try to hit it as many times you can in a row.You get 1 point for asingle hit, 2 for doubles and 3 for trebles.
You can also select if you want to run the training session on a certain time period or if you want the session to last until you miss the target. There’s an easy and a hard option for you to choose as well. And don’t forget, tracking your practice makes it more profitable and more fun!

Scolia support

The game now also got support for Scolia devices to automatically track the darts for you during your game session. This will give you more focus during your training session since you only need to focus on your throw.

The higher score you get the more pressure you will feel to continue to score and not to miss the selected target. This is very a powerful way to practise under pressure.

In-game statistics

We’ve now also added the in-game statistics feature for this game. When you visit the game you will find the “Your stats” red button top right which will open up a statistics view for your training sessions. Play the game a few times and try out the different options to see which works best for your current level.

Check out Dawson Murschells video about this practice routine!

Play the game today and make it count!

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Bridge the gap between practice and match

To everyone who ever played darts in any competitive level, this will probably sound familiar:

You arrive to the venue well ahead of the match starts, to warm up and get into the zone. Everything feels fine, you hit big scores and hit the doubles for fun and you really feel that you’re playing your best darts. ”Today, I’ll show them” you say to yourself.
It’s time for your game and you shake your opponents hand with great confidence and maybe a little smile. When you hear ”Game On” it all changes and you can’t hit anything. Your arm feels stiff and you can’t get the feeling you had just minutes ago.

The reason for this can vary and can be very personal, but many just call it Performance anxiety.

Most dart players realises soon that playing darts at a competitive level differs a lot from the training done at home. Playing darts at a competitive level is more a matter of mind over just pure skill.
So what’s the secret sauce to avoid the stress and performance anxiety?
Unfortunately there’s not a single easy answer but comfortingly, many players feel it’s getting easier and easier with experience. That’s why it is so important to get out and play as much as you can, even though you feel you’re not as good or prepared as you want to.

Here are a few things you can focus on in the meantime to bring your practice game to the match.

Practise and prepare

When you’ve practised structured and dedicated for months or years, you will not only build up your different skills (throwing, calculating etc) you will also build up your confidence. When you’re standing at the oche against a an opponent and you’ve three darts to finish a leg or a game, this extra boost of confidence and knowing you’ve prepared for this really makes a difference. You know you can hit the finishing double since you’ve done it hundreds or thousands of times in practice. Make sure you use your training time wisely to give you the extra boost when it really matters.
Get a few targets – BULL, D20 or D16 for example, and do extra dedicated training with these targets. Use the Dedication game and set your desired target and length for your session (for example to play until 50 hits or 20 minutes) and practise regularly this way to finally feel that you own your target. In a game situation when you’re facing this target to win the leg, you know it is yours and you can do it! You will do it!

At practice – simulate game situation

I highly recommend you to use a big part of your training time to work on specific things, such as doubles, power-scoring and your grouping skills. When you practise finishing or different 501-situations (like Master 501, Solo-01, Checkpoint-501 etc) it is important to play these games in a way, as close to match-situation as you can.

When you play these games, imagine you’re up against a specific opponent (a friend, someone you lost a recent game against, Luke Littler, Gerwyn Price or anyone you’d like to win a game against) and take your time. No need to rush. You own the oche when it’s your time to throw. Take a deep breath before you go to the oche. Don’t rush the throw. Make sure you’re 100% focused before you release the darts. After the throw when you have picked up the darts, walk to the side as you would do in a real game to avoid the player that is ready at the oche and take a pause a meter or two from the oche ”until it is your time to throw”. Then you’ll get the correct match tempo during your training session and imagining you’re opponent will also give you some extra adrenaline or pulse when you’re at the oche. A different tempo at practice can really mess up your game when you have to wait for the opponent to throw.

At match – simulate practice situation

When you’re playing a real game and your darts aren’t hitting what you’re aiming and your confidence is running low, close your eyes a few seconds away from the oche, imagine you’re at home or your favourite training place throwing darts for fun. Imagine you’re playing your favourite game or nailing your targets time and time again. Imagine you’re listening to your favourite music and try to get into the mood that you’re in charge and you’re in control. Is your hand shaky? Close your hand really hard for a few seconds a few times, and it will feel better before you’re ready to prepare your throw.
If a thrown dart is completely off, take a step back and refocus. Take a deep breath and step up to the oche again and slowly get ready for your next throw.
It is so common to see players missing the target completely stresses to the next dart which either will overcompensate or follow the first dart, instead of trying to recompose and give the next dart full attention.
Remember that every dart counts!

Focus on the things you can control

Focus on the thing you can do something about. Focus on your rhythm, your throw and your next throw. Don’t pay too much attention to what the other player hits or don’t hit because that is out of your control. You can’t do anything about it. It’s just you and the board. When the other player is throwing, figure out what you’ll be aiming for and try to visualize that your throw is perfect and you hit the target.

Keep calm

This is easier said than done. But if you just did a bad throw, missed the double or got a bad bounce out, keep calm and don’t show your opponent what you’re feeling. Wait until you get behind the opponent to reveal any body language what you’re feeling inside. If you show your opponents you’re frustrated or angry, it will fuel their confidence by knowing you’re not in balance nor in the zone.

Just lost a leg or your opponent has only one leg to win the match?
Take the pressure off yourself and reframe the situation as a fun challenge to win the next leg, and the next…
Find your own ways to stay calm and focused. Having a Pre Shot Routine can help removing the memory of the last throw and instead promote focus on the next one.

Have fun

People who are having fun are more relaxed. If you show your opponent that you are having fun and that you’re relaxed you’re also sending the signals that you’re in control and that you’ve got confidence. I rather play against a person who looks stressed and nervous than one who looks focused and in control. By understanding and adopting different mental strategies, dart players at all levels can improve their game.

Summary

All these things are of course easier said than done, but if you know a few things how to prepare before a game, and you know how to get in the right mood during the game, it will help you forward. Reflect on how you respond to different situations during practice and during a match against a real opponent. What gets you calm and what gets you stressed? Be smart and use the tools available to prepare, practise and perform to make you the best darts player you can be at the moment.

Enjoy your darts and make it count!

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Kick-start your darts training

Are you one of all the many thousands who recently discovered darts and started to play? Then you probably want to learn as much as possible and improve as fast as possible. Here’s a quick guide how to kick-start your darts career.

Sign up to GoDartsPro for free

Register an account for free on GoDartsPro to try out many of the games available and learn how to use them for your darts practice. Make sure to visit the Support area where you’ll find many training- and game-articles as well as videos teaching you how to play the different games. You can use GoDartsPro.com using a browser with your computer, tablet or phone. No need to download anything, just browse to the website and play the games.

Upgrade to premium membership

To make the most out of your training hours, upgrade to premium membership and you will unlock more than 100 training games, monthly challenges, Premium League, 1001 Battles, fun multiplayer games as well as the so popular Virtual Coach. This is all yours for less than €0.20 / day and you can practise and play as much as you want to. Make sure to update your member profile with a photo, the flag of your country and information about you as a player.

Your first real training session

Beginners are often enthusiastic about starting to play the games, trying to hit the doubles and hit high checkouts as they do on TV. But make sure you first know the basics about darts. The stance, the grip and how to do a proper follow through. There are many great videos on Youtube when you can learn this. It might look like a simple action, but throwing a dart is a complex activity that needs to be repeated many times until perfection. Make sure you’ve done a proper warm up and that you can be fully focused for at least 20 minutes. Don’t rush your training and make sure that every dart counts.
When you’ve practised for about 20-30 minutes, make sure to take a break. It is much better to play several focused sessions of 20 minutes with breaks in between, than throwing darts for hours.

Find games suitable for your level

Many of the darts practice games out there are too hard to use for darts players in the beginning of their darts careers. When you play games suitable for your level you will build your confidence and have more fun. If the games are too hard it is easy to lose interest and quit. Play games like:
Section 5
Insider
21
Lockdown Challenge
Points Around The World (PAW)
A1

Set up goals

When it comes to training and improvement it is important to set up and use goals, both short-term and long-term goals. The goals must be achievable but enough challenging for your current level. Use the High-Score game for example and play the game many times during your first month. Then you will get your scoring-average for that month. Use this as a goal and play the games many times again and try to beat your previous months average. Each months average will be displayed as a bar graph in the game. This is a fun and easy way to use goals and follow them up on GoDartsPro!

Get your first MICO-factor

The MICO-factor concept on GoDartsPro is a unique way to find your true ability in darts.
All the games MICO-factor games are very effective, totally measurable, comparable, and therefore a solid base of how good you really are. Each game needs to be played 5 times to show your MICO-factor for that game. When you’ve played 5 MICO-factor games at least 5 times each you will get your public MICO-factor. From that on try to increase your MICO-factor decimal by decimal and improve while having fun. The Virtual Coach also use your MICO-factor to compare your stats with thousands of other members stats, with similar MICO-factor as you.

Gather your favourite games and set up a playlist

When you’ve find a game you like mark it as a favourite game. On the GameOn area, click the small white square top right of the game image and it will change to a heart showing it is one of your favourite games. You can easily reach all your favourite games by clicking the icon with a red heart in top right of the website. Use the playlist feature to set up your own training session with your favourite games or try one of the many public playlists to see what other members are practising.

Use the Virtual Coach

The Virtual Coach is designed and developed to challenge each player at their current level. Make sure to set up an honest and true profile, reflecting your current situation, with the Virtual Coach to get the most out of it. Once your Virtual Coach profile is set up, you will be asked to play a number of games to give the Virtual Coach enough stats to figure out your current level. When this is done, you will get different assignments with goals representing your current level. Play the games until you reach the goal and finish the task. Sometimes, the tasks might be too tough for you to finish. But with the game sessions you play, the Virtual Coach will learn more about your level and will try to adjust the follwoing tasks to better suit your current level. As you continue the Virtual Coach will challenge you to perform just on top of your average for a steady improvement.
The Virtual Coach will also give you alerts of games you need to play to maximize your position in the Premium League and challenges.
Read more here how to start using the Virtual Coach!

Use the Monthly Challenges

Check out the different monthly challenges, play the games and try to reach the leaderboards. When you’ve connected with other members or invited your friends to GoDartsPro, you will also have Friendly Challenges to compare your scores with your friends. The challenges are fun and an effective way to practise and improve.

Finished your training? Play some fun games!

When you’ve finished your training for the day you can play some of the fun multiplayer games with your friends and family. These will not affect your stats on GoDartsPro and should be played just for fun.

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Make your darts training more challenging

One of the most important keys to make your darts training effective is to make your practice enough challenging. Just throwing darts at treble 20 or bull will eventually make you better but if you really want to improve as fast as possible you need to start practise deliberately with a good amount of pressure.

Try to beat your current level

Instead of only focusing on your 501 average as an indicator of your current level, check your statistics from your favourite games on GoDartsPro and find your average there. It’s better to try to beat your average scores rather than just chasing to beat your high-score for a game. This will give you small victories more often and will build up your confidence and your mind-set that you can win and that you are a winner.

The coach for the Swedish Development Team, Peter Sajwani, asked me to add the game SOLO-01 to GoDartsPro which is a game he use regularly for the players in the team. He gives them a ”homework” to find out how few darts they need to win 8 out of 10 legs in a game of 501. They then play against that fixed number of darts to try to win 8 out of 10 legs. Their number of darts to play against will be lowered as they improve. That’s a smart and effective way to put you under good amount of pressure at your current level.
Try it you too with the game SOLO-01

Use Premium League & Monthly challenges

Use the Premium League concept and the Monthly Challenges on GoDartsPro. Find a game you like on GoDartsPro that has some kind of leaderboard for it. Either as a Monthly Challenge, part of the Premium League concept or as an in-game leaderboard. Concentrate and play a session of the game and compare your score with the leaderboard. Didn’t make it to the leaderboard? No worries, continue and play the game again and try to beat your previous best score until you reach the leaderboard.
Got a position in the leaderboard? Check the score just above and try to beat it to climb the leaderboard?
Are you in the lead of the leaderboard? Have a break – you deserve it!

The Virtual Coach IS a challenge

The Virtual Coach is designed and developed to challenge the players to perform just on top of their current level or average. This inspires the players to beat their average again and again which leads to a steady improvement. If the Virtual Coach want to suggest a game for you and you haven’t yet played it, the Virtual Coach compares your MICO-factor with thousands of other members on GoDartsPro, to find a suitable level for the game to set up a challenging task for you. If you’re having problems finishing the tasks the Virtual Coach gives you, try to finish at least one before time’s up and then try the new tasks you’ll get at next visit.

Mix up your games with the playlist feature

Create a playlist with a few fun games you know you usually perform quite good at and mix them with a few tougher games. A big reason people don’t improve that much is that they mostly practising the things their already good at. I know, it is much more fun to play a drum fill you know you can do quite good, rather than practising the rudiments on a rubber practice pad you know will make you good later on… Challenge yourself and pick a few tough games where your main task is to stay focused and positive until you finish it.

Set a goal for your training session

A good habit is to set a goal for your training session and that you don’t quit until you reached it.
The goal must always be personal based on your current level and achievable. For example, to score more than 100 points with three darts, hit at least one 180, throw five throws over 85 in a row etc. Be creative and set new goals for your sessions to make them more fun. Stick to it and don’t quit until you’ve nailed it.

The fastest way to improve your darts game is to train with intention, not just repetition. Casual throwing builds familiarity, but deliberate practice builds excellence. Add challenge, create pressure, and step outside your comfort zone — because true progress happens when your training demands your very best.

Most important – Enjoy your darts and make it count!

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How to make your darts training more effective

There are several things you can do to make your darts training more effective but many beginners neglect some of the most important keys just because they are too eager to get started, throw darts and improve. Here are some areas you really should pay attention to, to boost your training sessions.

Warm up properly

Before an intense training session, play in the league or a tournament you need a proper warm up. Not just routines to use with your darts to loosen up and get dialled in on the board. Many players neglect the importance of a proper physical warm up. To get your arm and the mechanics prepared for throwing darts. If you warm up properly and also add a bit of stretching after your darts sessions, you also minimize the risk to get shoulder/arm/neck injuries.

With the first few minutes when you start throwing darts, focus on the mechanics and the follow through rather than what you aim at or what you hit.
Make sure your throw is as smooth and relaxed as possible. Don’t stress this phase to try out a new fun game or start hunting the trebles.

When your arm feels relaxed and ready to start throwing there are many ideas and suggestions for best warming up routines. If you for example check the Playlists feature on GoDartsPro you’ll find many different warming up routines shared by other members. You need to find what works best for you but to give you some ideas, here’s a few you can try:

– Around the board (three darts at every single/double/treble – no pressure, just get ready for business)
– 20 – BULL – 3 (get your arm dialled in verically)

You can also try different switching routines to warm up on different important targets such as the SwitchBlade, PowerSwitch or Switching Doubles.

Focus on every dart

A common mistake is to neglect the importance of focusing on every dart. Never throw a dart if you don’t really mean it. If you don’t get a good score with your first two darts, it doesn’t make it better by throwing away the last dart without full focus and intention. That’s also one reason several games on GoDartsPro got a feature to ”Save the throw” with last dart in different ways (like ”Save score with bull” as in the game 501 O’Clock).

Play short effective games

Another common misstake is to play too long sessions too often. Of course you need to mix up your training and being able to stay focused during longer sessions but it is easier to keep focus if you have short effective games with some fun gamification/challenge to it.
Most of the MICO-factor games are short and effective and got a decent amount of pressure added to it to make it more challenging. The Exponential Bundle and the Pivot bundle for example.

Practise with the Virtual Coach

The Virtual Coach is designed and developed to challenge you to perform just on top of your average. If you do that regularly your average will increase and you will improve. Sounds easy but of course it gets harder and harder. The Virtual Coach also compares your stats with thousands of other members stats to see where your flaws are and what kind of games and task will be suitable for you.

The Virtual Coach will suggest different challenging tasks for you to finish and will inspire you to practise more structured.

Set short and long goals

Short-term goals help you stay motivated and focused since you can see results more quickly.
Long-term goals may feel a bit far away in the future, making it harder to stay motivated while working on them. But they’ll give you direction, purpose, and a roadmap for your future success.

You might have heard about the SMART goals method, but what are SMART goals? The SMART in stands for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound.

As your goals are being developed and phases of different goals are being accomplished, it is good practice to reevaluate each goal and make sure they are still relevant and achievable. Once any of your goals have been accomplished, make sure to celebrate the success and start setting up new SMART goals.
You might have set a goal to reach 25 180’s during the year, but also to reach a certain average in the High-Score game for a month for example. If you haven’t got any specific goals yet, pick a few favourite games on GoDartsPro and set some Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound goals for them.

Quick pause after 20-30 minutes

If you’ve recently started to play darts it is so easy to just spend hour after hour at the board throwing thousands of darts each day. It is so much fun and you are so inspired and dedicated to improve faster than your friends and opponents.
But if you don’t take pauses about every 20-30 minutes or so, you run a risk of reinforcing bad habits. Bad habits can lead to bad practise which could only hold you back from achieving your goals. Take breaks and make sure to skip darts completely a day or two every now and then. It will build up your hunger again and can do wonders to your game play.

Plan your training

It might sound boring to plan your practice when you just want to throw darts all the time.
But it can be very beneficial to divide your training info several specific sessions where you focus on different areas to improve. It can be focusing on groupings, power-scoring, doubles, finishing etc. It can also be very beneficial to adapt some kind of periodization to your training. That means to not practise the same lengths of sessions with the same kind of intensity every time. There’s a concept called periodizational training that can be very positive also for darts training, to plan your training to reach peak performance for an important tournament.

The Olympian archerer Jake Kaminsky has written an interesting book about adapting this concept for arhery (”Training for archery” – thanks Łukasz Wacławski for suggesting me reading this book!)

UPDATE!
Late 2024 GoDartsPro launched an update for the Training Log with functionality to plan your darts training.
Read the article here!

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Make your darts training more fun

To improve and become good at darts most of us need to spend many hours practising at the board. Just playing 501’s, leg after leg, or only around the board or even worse, just throwing at treble 20, can be really tiring and boring. When things are getting tiring and boring we all know what it does to the inspiration to continue and to your focus.

Therefore, it is extremely important to make your training fun and engaging so you instead are looking forward to your next training session. Here are some ideas how to make your darts training mor fun and engaging.

Play games you enjoy to play

There are so many good training games to choose from so don’t just stick to only a few.
Vary your training with games focusing on different aspects of the game of darts. Play short games. Play long games. If you’ve tried a routine that you didn’t like, put it away for a while and find some other game. There are always variations that can be more fun and more suitable for you at your current level. Check out the playlists that other members on GoDartsPro has made public and find new favourite games to add to your toolbox.

Track your darts and game sessions

When it comes to darts practise, nothing is as fun as when you’re improving. If you don’t track your darts and game sessions, how are you going to know if you’re improving? You need to be able to see your development so by far, the most efficient way for early-stage players is to keep a record of your training. Make it a habit to regularly go to the Training Log and follow up your training and check the in-game-statistics when you’ve played a game.

Compare your scores with other players

When we managed to get a great score for a game session, it can be really fun to compare the score with other players, to see how good it was. It can also be a great trigger for setting your next goal to work for. For example, if you compare your score with other members scores in a leaderboard/challenge on GoDartsPro, and find out that there is someone with a slightly better score, use that score as your next goal to beat. This will give you the feeling of – ”just one more time” – and your training and development continues…

Set short term goals – and treat yourself when you achieve them

No matter what sport you play, coaches will always tell you to set goals to work towards.
For darts, setting goals is extremely important. Goals can both be scores and averages for a game session or a period of time, but can also be the number of darts you throw or how many hours you practise during a week/month. Set reasonable but challenging goals and when you achieve your goal, it is also important to celebrate or treat yourself to mark/highlight in your memory that you managed to reach your goal. It can be goals for a certain score in a game, to reach a certain MICO-factor, hit your first 180 or a number of tons in a row. Goals are personal and should reflect your current level and what you want to achieve.
When you’ve reached an important goal, get that nice darts shirt you always wanted or buy a new set of darts. Wearing that nice darts shirt when you play the next time will give you an extra boost of confidence since you know you got it from reaching your goal.

Tidy up your training area

If you set up a nice area in your home where you really feel inspired to practice it will probably lead to more quality training hours. If you instead, always need to move some furnitures, set up your dartboard on a tripod, or walk/drive 45 minutes to practice, you’ll probably lose interest soon or at least practise fewer hours.
Make your darts corner a nice place to be at and you’ll spend more quality time there. When you get your first trophies, make sure to put them up in your darts corner to remind you that you’re a winner!

Enjoy your darts and make it count!

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How to achieve ”Flow” and getting ”into the zone”

When you hear athletes talking about their performance or how they’ll win an important tournament or a game, you can often hear them talk about ”getting into the zone” and the need for extreme focus. So how do you get ”into the zone” and what is it?

Flow described on Wikipedia:
”In positive psychology, a flow state, also known as being in the zone, is the mental state in which a person performing some activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity.”

The concept ”Flow” was named by the psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi and shares many characteristics with hyperfocus (hyperfocus is an intense form of mental concentration or visualization that focuses consciousness on a task).

The flow state or being in the zone, is the experience of being so absorbed by an engaging, enjoyable task that has got your complete attention. You’re not thinking of anything else and you lose sense of time and self-consciousness (as you probably do with most of the games on GoDartsPro… ;)).

So how can you achieve flow and getting into the zone?

You can set up your training plan and a training environment to make it as flow-promoting as possible. Here’s a short guide how to get into flow more often.

1 – Make it easy to focus

When you’re about to practise, turn of phone (if you use it with GoDartsPro, just turn off your signal) and make sure you can practise without distractions. If you can, practise early in the day when your mind is fresh and you’re well rested.

2 – Prepare for flow

You can make it easier to get into the zone by creating a ritual.
It could be to pour up a glass/bottle of water to have next to you during practise, and turn on your favourite focus playlist. Create or use a playlist with games on GoDartsPro that makes you feel you’re in the zone. Find a way of letting your brain know that you’re about to practise hard.

3 – Set goals for your training

An important part of getting into a flow state is working on a specific task with a clear goal.
Games like Dedication, High-Score, Dead centre are good games to get the flow you’re after. Easy to use games with one clear task and goal. Focus, throw and make it count!
You’ll find it a whole lot easier to achieve a flow when you know exactly what you’re working on and why. Knowing what you’re about to accomplish also gives you a sense of control.

4 – Challenge yourself

Practising darts with the right amount of challenge are more engaging.
Flow is dependent on finding that sweet spot between your current skills and the challenge at hand.
One way to achieve this is to engage in something called ”Deliberate practice”.
”Deliberate practice” is where every training session has a specific goal that can be measured, analyzed, and optimized to increase your overall performance. You need to push your skills to their limit (that’s what we got the Virtual Coach for). Deliberate practice, if applied correctly, can turn your potential into reality!

Conclusions

Most of the games on GoDartsPro are developed with “deliberate practise” in mind and to facilitate getting “into the zone”.
The games are easy to understand and use, right amount of challenge, they’ve got measurable statistics, works well with short-term and long-term goals and you’ll get instant feedback during the game session. This is also why it is extremely valuable to use the games and statistics for your training to deliberately practise towards your goals.

With a Scolia kit to track the darts for you it is even easier to get “into the zone” since all you have to do is to focus on the next throw during the whole game session.

Finding ways to maximize the amount of time you spend “in the zone” will make you more engaged, satisfied, and creative. You will feel better when you’re in flow and you’ll feel more satisfied after your training session.
Many successful people use the flow to get where they want.
So why shouldn’t you?

Get into the zone and make it count!

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The new game Checkout Randomizer

Practising finishing in darts helps you manage pressure effectively and take advantage of opportunities when they arise. The Polish player and GoDartsPro ambassador Łukasz Wacławski contacted me about this game idea he had to combine parts from different finishing games to create a new fun and challenging game – The Checkout Randomizer!

Łukasz own words

“Keeping concentrated and motivated mindset during each training session, is the key to progress. It should never be about just “going through routines”. A player needs a certain attitude and commitment to MAKE IT COUNT for him! When I plan darts training, I like to think about analogy to video games – what makes people motivated to spend so much time mastering any game? How they are able to sit in front of the monitor for hours and hours, pressing buttons with flushed faces and eyes wide open with astonishment and anticipation?

Łukasz Wacławski and Gerwyn Price at PDC Superbet Poland Darts Masters Warsaw 2023 (photo PAP)

(Hey, I did that too, back in a day!)…and this is what I am looking for in darts training as well – there is no place for „flat” throwing and „doing hours”. Each training should bring at least some part of the excitement that everyone of us had, once we were starting out our darting journey.

GoDartsPro is doing great job for all of us here!

From all skills required from any darter, I treat 2-3 darts finishes as a most crucial one. If I were to pick one and only one skill to train on the board, that would be it.

Some time ago I created GoDartsPro playlist called “Darters Power” which is dedicated to this subject. I put “Five Checkouts” “Checkout Challenge” and “Catch 40” on the list. They are all great games that will make any devoted player deadly on their finishes.

The game Checkout Randomizer

In Checkout Randomizer I tried to include the best parts of other finishing games and add some gamification flavors to it. You will play the game at your own pace – when you are successful, you will be reaching higher tiers with greater rewards (and greater challenges) available, or – when you miss – you are going down the ladder (or even eventually loosing some points if you are not effective enough!). How many points can you reach in given time? Or how long would it take for you today to get 10 or 30 points? Give it a try and MAKE IT COUNT!”

The game rules for Checkout Randomizer

The game starts with a random number from the Tier 1. If you finish it within three darts, you get one point and another random number – this time from Tier 2 etc. Anytime the out is missed you go down one tier. If you miss a checkout at Tier 1 you will also lose one point.
You can select the duration of the game to play until 30 points, 20 minutes etc. Play the game by the easy user interface or by using your Scolia device to autotrack the darts for you.

Save by bull

To make every dart count in this game, if you are not on a double with one dart left, you can try to hit bullseye to “save” the Tier. If you hit bullseye you will continue on the same Tier and checkout for your next throw.

Tier 1 (1 point)	41-60
Tier 2 (2 points)	61-80
Tier 3 (3 points)	81-90
Tier 4 (4 points)	90-100
Tier 5 (5 points)	100-130
Tier 6 (10 points)	130+

Easy mode

After the first sneak-launch I got feedback from several members saying it was a great game but a bit too hard.
So I added an easy mode and if you select this option your points will never be reduced.
So even if you have some points and are back at Tier 1 and miss the checkout, your points remain safe.

Conclusions

I think this is a fantastic game that have many levels of gamification that will make it last and continue to be fun and challenging for many players.

if you like this game, please check out and subscribe to Łukasz Youtube channel Smart Darts Training.

Thanks again Łukasz for a great game suggestion!

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How to chalk like a pro

More and more clubs and tournaments are using digital tools to mark the scores in games of 501, and auto-tracking devices like Scolia are more common. That makes it even more important to know how to calculate the scores fast to not lose focus and rhythm during the throws. We also know that online technical solutions can have technical problems with downtime as a result. Then it is good to know how to mark (chalk) a game of 501 with pen and paper.

During a training camp last weekend I noticed that we were quite a few players that wasn’t that confident marking the games. With fast throwing players it is important to be confident and know how to calculate fast to get the chalking right. That’s why I checked old requests about darts maths and how to chalk a game, and started to create a game for it. The more you practise the easier it will be. You will both remember combinations and learn how to calculate faster. Since chalking darts games only involves subtraction, the maths isn’t that hard once you know how to think.
Give it a few tries and you will see.

Game idea and how to use it

The idea is to sit down with a piece of paper and mark the scores as they are presented in the game, but you can of course practise doing the calculations and verify that you got it right. You can download the GoDartsPro -01 score sheet here and print it:

Click to download

Set the different delays for the game to suit your speed to calculate or press any key to pause/play (or click the pause/play button top right).

How to calculate subtraction faster

Here are some well known help how to do the subtraction calculation easier.
Always start with the numbers in the end and subtract them one by one as in the examples below.

Start simple

If the score is close to 100, it can often be easier to first calculate using 100. Let’s say the score is 437 and the player score 95, and we normally have this calculation:
437
-95
An easier way is to first calculate 437 – 100 = 337 and then we know that 100-95 = 5 to add, which gives you 337+5 = 342.

Many of us are also having extra difficulties when it comes to calculations requiring changing hundreds.
In cases like 284 – 87, it is often easier to think in two steps like this: 284 – 84 = 200 and then – 3 = 197 (minus 3 for the rest after taking 84 from 87). Or 142 – 49 in steps like 142 – 42 = 100 – 7 = 93 (minus 7 for the rest after taking 42 from 49).

Not all scores will be that easy to mark, so we need to figure out a way to calculate other scores as well.

57
-13

Start with the numbers 7 and 3 in the end of both rows,
7 – 3 = 4, and then continue with
5 – 1 = 4.
57-13 = 44.

Smaller number vs bigger numbers 1

More complicated calculations need to be handled in a slightly different way.
If the number on the 2nd row (subtrahend)is bigger than the number above (minuend) we need think different.

	1	1
3	5	4
–	8	7

Think of the smaller numbers on the first row with a 1 before them when you calculate,
like this: 14-7 = 7.
Then we need to remember that extra 1 when we continue with the next numbers.
15-8 = 7 and then do – 1 for the 1 we used before, = 6.
Since we have a new 1 (from 15-8) and we know that 87 is more than 54, we need to remove from the 3 as well = 2.
Which gives us the score 267.

Animation to explain the details

Here’s another example:

		1	1
	2	3	4
–	1	5	9

Calculate like we did in the previous example and do 14-9 = 5.
Then 13-5 = 8, minus the 1 we just used for the 14, 8-1 = 7.
Then we have 2-1 = 1, minus the 1 we used for the 13, 2-2 = 0.
Which gives us the score 75.

Smaller number vs bigger numbers 2

If the above didn’t make it any easier for you, there’s another way to think and calculate.
Start with the numbers in the end but do the opposite and take the number on the 2nd row (subtrahend)and do – with the number on the top row (minuend).
That gives as a number that we need to subtract from 10. We then need to add the 1 to the next number we calculate.

	1	1
3	5	4
–	8	7

7 – 4 = 3 and 10-3 = 7. Remember we need to add the 1 for the next number 8 as 8+1 = 9:
9 – 5 = 4 and 10-4 = 6.
Since we know that 87 is larger than 54 we need to subtract 1 from the initial 3 as well = 2.
Which gives us the score 267..

Don’t get scared by all the calculations. If you practise calculating and counting like this for 10-20 minutes per day it will soon be a lot easier. But if you still can’t figure out how to calculate you’re left with hitting only 100’s down to a finish and make it easier for yourself and the chalker… 😉

Click here and try Chalk Master today!

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PowerSwitch Bundle explained

The PowerSwitch game has been around on GoDartsPro for quite some time and it is a popular darts training game for many players to sharpen their switching and scoring skills. I played it many times recently and felt a new option to the game would be a great feature to add some extra pressure to the game.

Game rules

In PowerSwitch your targets are treble 20, treble 19 and treble 18! If you hit a treble, you stay on that target with your next dart. If you miss a treble use your next dart for the next target. 3 points for trebles and 1 point for singles.
You only score on the target numbers 20,19 and 18.

Examples:
First dart hits T20 = 3 points (stay on T20)
2nd dart hits S20 = 1 point (next target is T19)
Last dart hits T19 = 3 points

First dart hits S5 = 0 points (next target is T19)
2nd dart hits T7 = 0 points (next target is T18)
Last dart hits T18 = 3 points

PowerSwitch Bundle Explained

The PowerSwitch bundle option borrows the game logic from Exponential Bundle which adds a new dimension of pressure to the game which is always good training. First throw is the same as above, try to hit treble 20 with your first dart. If you hit it you continue on treble 20 otherwise your next dart goes for t19 and so on.

With the new bundle option every 2nd throw you need to score as much as possible (any field on the board counts).
When a switching throw and a scoring throw are done, these two are multiplied to get your first points in the game.

So if you for example got 7 points with your first 3 darts (as mentioned above) and you score 85 on your next throw, your total score for the first round would be 7 X 85 = 595.
With this new logic you add a lot of pressure to the scoring throw when you had a really good first switching throw. You really want to hit a big score with the 2nd throw and that throw needs your full focus.

With PowerSwitch bundle you throw 10 switching throws and 10 scoring throws in total.
Use this game option to simulate the pressure you will feel and the focus you will need in a real game.

Play the game today!

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Playlists – custom darts training workouts

With the new Playlists-feature on GoDartsPro you’ll be able to practise more structured and less random. You can follow other members’ playlists for inspiration and take your training to a new level.

Creating custom workouts has been a frequently suggested feature since the launch of the workouts feature with the Virtual Coach. Many members has asked for a way to group their favourite games into a sequenced playlist for better flow during their training. Instead of picking random games to practise, you can now create different playlists for different needs.

How to use the playlists feature

At the playlists page you’ll see your own playlists, featured playlists and public playlists. Just click a playlist to expand and see the games added to it. On each playlist you’ll have a small HEART symbol and by clicking it you will toggle follow/unfollow. For each playlist you’ll also see a small PLAY symbol that will start the first game in the playlist for you.

When the first game is finished a small popup will show a countdown timer before the next game in the playlist automatically will load.
Next to the title “PUBLIC PLAYLISTS” you’ll also see a filter symbol that will let you filter the public playlists shown.

Expanding and showing a playlist

When you’ve clicked a playlist it will expand and show the details for you. Top right you can copy the link and share with your friends. Just click the play icon to start the playlist or back to minimize the playlist again.

Editing your playlist

When you’re creating your own playlist you have different options to add the games to the playlist. If you are using a computer, the easiest option is to just DRAG-AND-DROP the games in the list where you want them. You can also easily change the order of the playlist by dragging the games and place them in the right order. For some games, there will also be different OPTIONS available. If you select any options these will be preselected for the game and can not be altered. Under the list of games you will also see a select option “– Find game to add”. Here you can search for the game you’re looking for and add it to the end of your playlist.
Just click the name to change it or click the icon next to the playlist type to give your playlist some other category.

Create or edit a playlist from within each game

You can also create a playlist or add games to an existing playlist from within the games available. Just click the HEART icon in top menu to expand the quick links dropdown.

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Why BIG SINGLES is a great darts training game

Many players are having consistency issues and can not group the darts in a solid way. To get more consistent you need of course to look at your stance and throw and see if there are anything that can be adjusted. There are plenty of videos on YouTube explaining and showing how to stand, balance and throw in a proper way.
But you should also practise more grouping games to build up a strong consistent throw.

The BIG SINGLES explained

With the BIG SINGLES game you need to hit the big single of the numbers 1-20 and the level you choose at start decides how many hits you need to continue to the next number. Your aim is to finish the game with as few darts/throws as possible. Several members have requested a game based on big singles around the board where the rule adds pressure to the training. I gathered all the ideas, tested it on my own a few times and created the BIG SINGLES game on GoDartsPro with the following levels:

ADVANCED LEVEL

3 hits = move to next number
2 hits = stay on current number
1 hit = go back one number
0 hits = go back two numbers

INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

2/3 hits = move to next number
1 hit = stay on current number
0 hit = go back one number

BEGINNER LEVEL

1-3 hits = move to next number
0 hit = stay on current number
6 missed darts in a row = go back one number

(Big singles are the fields highlighted in the dartboard above.)

So for the ADVANCED level you need to hit all three darts in the big single to move on to the next number.
If you hit 2 darts in the big single you’re staying at the same number. If you only manage to hit one big single you need to get back one number and if you miss all three darts you need to get back two numbers on the board.

Conclusions

By adding the punishment when you don’t manage to get the number of hits required to move on, we build up the necessary pressure to the game. This pressure force you to focus and make sure that every dart counts. If you miss the first dart, try to recompose and focus to hit the big single with the next dart.

This game can therefore be tougher than you think even if we’re only throwing at the big singles.

Many players like to use different “around-the-board” routines as the ending part of their warming-up routine.
Use this BIG SINGLES game and track your darts to see how you improve.

Play the game today!

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How to make my throw stronger?

Many darts players suffer from a weak throw. Luckily there are many ways to improve this area. A weak throw is quite a common problem. Here we go through a few things you can do to strengthen your throw.

Hand weights

Many top professional players were before their career pro IE carpenters, bricklayers, painters, plasterers and similar – so they have used their hands quite a lot. Even though this is a very personal matter, we would like to encourage you to do so as well.
No, we don’t mean body-builders nor gym bunnies, but something using your hands and getting them stronger.
The basic move you would like to get stronger would be the opposite move of your normal throw, which would be the biceps. You don’t need to build a beefcake style of a lump, but it’s always helpful if the opposing muscle group is strong.
So we recommend that you get a couple of hand weights and do the series of biceps say 8 – 7 – 5 repeats (break of 30 seconds after each), thrice a week, without needing to grind like mad, but still “feeling the force”. For someone, this could mean 4-5 kilos weights, with somebody stronger 12 kilos or even more.

Six darts practice

We went through one game of six darts practice last week. If you did it, you’ll certainly know what I am talking about. It will make your hand a bit more powerful.
We recommend you doing this on Mondays and Tuesdays just to get your throw back to normal before any important competitions, which are mainly held on weekends.

Rebooting throw

Whenever things get severely bad, you can always start playing around with your throw, if it’s damaged and gone totally unbalanced. Change the set for the heavier, for the lighter, just play around. This could be called “rebooting”. You can use anything up to 5-6 sets at a time and just start throwing with them almost aimlessly – for example aiming inside of the treble ring. Wear your arm totally off by tossing the darts as long as you can, say maximum 15-20 minutes.
Do this two days on the trot and then have at least 3 days off the board. Whenever you come back, you’re up for a surprise…

Stand back

This is one of the best ways to get rid of the most general weakness of the throw. Just stand back from the oche at least a meter (or yard) and try throwing as close to the bull or treble 20. The thing with this is that you need to give it some time. So don’t give up easily! The more you try the better is the all-round effect! Still don’t do this at a time more than half an hour.

Naturally, you can combine these practices any way you wish.

Enjoy your practice!

Mikko Laiho (RIP)

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How to become a Power Scorer?

There isn’t anything in the world as satisfactory as hitting 180. Except for hitting them a few times in short intervals! So should one practice only hit 180’s or perfect scores? The short answer to this one is an absolute NO.
If you don’t happen to be MvG or Phil Taylor…

Instead, you should aim for the two-hits-per-throw area. That’s much easier and still as effective – the frustration factor doesn’t occur anywhere near as often if only going for the maximums. Also hitting the maximum score can be next to impossible for the majority of players.

TWO OUT OF THREE IS GOOD ENOUGH!

The Palace of champions is full of one kind of players: Those who can get to a finish and then finish it. Simple as that. So scoring as heavily as you can is essential. Imagine that you’re hitting continually say 140, 125, 140, 137, 140, which would beat 180, 180, 100, 100, 100!
Of course, this is for the more advanced players, but anyone who wants to improve should at least try to get these 2/3 hits and even ground the whole practice on these.
So for example you could go the doubles around the board 2/3 or the trebles 2/3. It is a doable and very effective practice.
But how to get there? How to be able to hit two tiny targets with your three darts only? To be honest that’s not easy.

CHEATING IN PRACTICE?

This is a delicate issue, but please don’t jump on me yet. Cheating is absolutely allowed to give a little bit of handicap to the players who aren’t at the level of best. And it’s good for your mind. Even though we are true believers in pressure as a tool when practicing, cheating gives a little trim to your game, and it kind of balances and adjusts your practicing. After all, we all have our bad days in the office, right?

How to cheat then?

You can use four or even five or six darts – am hoping that every one of contemporary players has got two exactly similar sets nowadays – when trying to get through this weeks practice game. Of course if you have been playing a while you shouldn’t need to use any extra darts.

Practice game of the week: DUAL TREBLE HOP

This is a nice little game for all level of players, who have read the above. So please, if you think this is too hard to achieve with three darts only, don’t hesitate to use some extra darts. Even novices can make progress to their power scoring with this Hit & Run –game. No marking is required.
Your aim is to hit two different trebles in the same go, to advance further. So for example treble 1 and treble 2 in the same throw. When you get it, your next task is to hit trebles 3 and 4, in the same go etc. Your goal is to get through all the way from treble 1 to treble 20.
And you can use the “Burn Dart” –rule: If you hit your target with your last dart and the next throw’s FIRST DART also hits, you’re done with this target. Or you can use more darts than three if you feel to do so…

Enjoy your practice!

Text: Mikko Laiho (RIP)

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Want to become a Pro?

Practice the practice!

Due to the fact that development in darts is a slow process – all of the top players have been playing for over 10 years before reaching their top game – patience is a very important virtue of a darts player. So you need to know what are you practicing and why, so learn the game before tossing it to the bin!

Probably the most famous top players practice game in the world would be this simple and effective game. You need to hit two double 1’s with your three darts, then two double 2’s and so on. We call it “Dual Double”. It will take – naturally depending on a player’s normal throwing rhythm – say 30-45 minutes county-level player to get done.
Advanced players does it in 20-30 minutes. Top pro will use at least 15 minutes for this game. But it is absolutely natural that you get stuck in one particular double. All that grinding! You could end up banging the same double for 15 minutes or so!

And same pro player who goes this through today in 20 minutes flying colours can’t get it done tomorrow in 50!
These daily variations in form and accuracy are normal, and you should always consider yourself well-trained if you manage to do any practice routine at a normal time – today.

MAKE RECORDS AND KEEP IT FUN!

Learning any practice game is essential. You need to know which level you’re achieving easily, which is your standard, and how long time it normally takes to get through the wanted goal.
The best way to learn a new practice game is just playing it, that’s obvious. Play it ten times and see what’s your best score, or what’s the best time you can without rushing do it. Then repeat that next practice day and see if you could break the records you made yesterday.

Then leave it be for a few sessions, and try again. You’re now learning your level in this game, you’ve done your self-assessment, which is vital to your road to pro.

DD aka DUAL DOUBLES

This is a very effective but hard practice game for gaining accuracy with the doubles. This is a “Hit & Run” game so no marking up needed. You need to have two doubles in one bed before you can progress – in one throw. You’re using only the even doubles. Starting with double 2, then double 4, finishing on double 20.

Burn-Dart rule: This is to avoid “burned darts”. If you have missed first two darts, aim still well with the third, because if you hit with it AND also next throws first dart, it is counted “two in the bed” and you can move on!

More advanced players can use all the doubles from 1-20 + Bulls’eye.

Top Pro–candidates can play this game without the Burn-dart rule and Future World Champions can play this without any hits on the singles in a successful two-doubles round!

Text: Mikko Laiho (RIP)

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Darts finishing practice

Learn the best way practicing to finish like a PRO!

A big finish in darts is much cooler and more important than hitting a maximum, yet so many darts players mainly practice throwing at treble 20. So what are the most important things we need to practise to improve our finishing skills?

Know the finishing combinations in darts

Knowing the out-shot combinations is something that every darts player should work really hard to master. And still, we see players on TV fail every now and lose the leg since they ended up on a bogey number – 169, 168, 166, 165, 163, 162 and 159 (write these down on a piece of paper and put on your desk, computer, back of your phone etc so you’ll never forget them).

Even if you’re not good enough yet to finish the highest possible out – 170, always try to reach it with as few darts as possible from 501. This way you learn how to think and act like a pro.

If you’re playing a lot of 501’s online or with an app, it’s easy to rely on the out-shot suggestions shown.
Here are some ideas for you how to practise and improve your darts maths:
* Always try to do the math before you look at the suggested finish and validate that you got it right.
* Use the tools on GoDartsPro to practise the darts maths (Darts Mathlete, Flip-Out, Swipe-Out).
* Always carry the Winmau out-shots card by Richard Ashdown in your pocket to read while on the bus, flight or waiting for a friend.
* Read good darts books to learn from the experts to understand why certain combinations are better to learn than other.
* Write down the score on a piece of paper and do the maths while watching the darts on TV.

Another way is to try to learn one out-shot per day, using the current number of the day of the year. Start on the 2nd of January and try to remember how to finish 2 😉 and then continue every day to learn the current daily out-shot. When you got the correct out-shot, write it down on a piece of paper, or on your hand so you can see it many times during the day. Later on in April and May things are getting really tricky…

Commit yourself to learning the darts maths, and put in the required effort to do it!

There are better ways than playing 501’s…

For players averaging under 60, playing only 501’s is mostly about scoring and in the end a struggle to hit a double to finish the leg. So not really the best way to practice finishing. Instead, play the games designed and developed to improve a players finishing skills instead of only playing 501’s.

Vary your training with the games below and spice it up every now and then with some dedicated doubles games as well!

Great finishing games to improve your darts

In this game you have 12 darts to finish the current score, starting with 201.
If you manage to finish the score in 12 darts (on a double, as in 501-style), your next starting score will increased by 10 = 211. If you fail to finish the score in 12 darts, your next starting score will be reduced by one.
To keep focus and to get the most out from your training, divide it into 20-30 minutes sessions with a short pause between. That’s why the default option in this game is to play for 20 minutes.
Play 201 Challenge »

The same logic as above, but in this game you start at 21 and need to finish the score with 3 darts.
Play the game for 20 minutes to be able to stay focused during the whole session, and see how high checkout you can nail.
Play Checkout Challenge »

You’ve got five random checkouts to unlock and finish within three darts each.
There are 4 different levels to choose from. Start from the easiest and see how many you can finish.
This is a great darts training game to improve your finishes and good fun to try to unlock them all.
Can you unlock all the 5 checkouts? Try it today!
Play Five Checkouts »

Try to take the outs 61-100 in 2 to 6 darts.
You score by taking the out in 2-6 darts. If you miss out in 6 darts, press MISS button and go for next out.
Exception! Hit the 99 out in 3 darts = score 3.
This is also a great game to practise the most outs you’ll face the most.
Play this game regularly and you will play better darts!
Play Catch 40 »

To finish it up!

Knowing exactly the best and fastest way to finish the score you’re on is a great feeling and will boost your confidence at the oche. If you need to stop, think and calculate between every dart you will reveal your lack of skill, lose your focus and your confidence. The earlier in life your learn the out-charts, the easier it will be and the better it will stay there.

So make it a good habit to practise learning the outs as often as you can!

Break a leg!

Handling the pressure

One of the most asked questions from darts player must be “How do I deal with my nerves?” If I could give a straight answer which would help everyone, I’d be a rich man. But there are ways to stay focused even under tremendous pressure, and they can be learned.

GoDartsPro - how to handle the pressure in a darts game

1 Believe

a) Make yourself think all the way through, that you will win this game and stick with the thought no matter what
b) Visualize yourself hitting the winning double instantly when you get the chance – repeat this many times during the match
c) Winning or losing isn’t the matter of life and death, so be happy if you ever get a chance to win it – and then go back to part b!
d) After poor throw try to forget that immediately and get prepared for the next, better throw.

2 Be calm but aggressive

a) Every time an opponent shows disappointment take it as an extra dart
b) Never show your feelings through the match
c) Every time you hit your objective be happy and stay aggressive – if you feel well there’s no need to hide that! But keep cool still though

3) Physical things to do when the pressure is on

a) Breathing

i) Always breath in and out before any important throw – the deeper the better, but remain breathing out as priority, this reduces your adrenalin levels

ii) Try to stay steady with breathing

iii) Make a routine out of proper breathing, internet is full of advice

b) Keeping hands worm

i) Shake your hands if they feel stiff

ii) Do a few shadow throws behind your opponent or before an important dart

iii) Your fingers should always feel easy, you can make fists and burst them open to make them feel better

c) Aiming

i) Try to focus on the certain part of the target, may it be treble, double or even single. If your darts stay flights up, try to hit the upper part of the middle of the treble – if they saty flights down, aim for the lower part of your target

d) Body language

i) Always look like a winner, no matter what happens

ii) Leave the sportsmanship to dodgy guys – raise above that

iii) Hold your head up!

iv) Take a breather and pace your throw even slightly slower than usual, hurrying when pressured normally makes more mistakes than surprising hits

4) Be hydrated all the times

Text: Mikko Laiho (RIP)

Mikko Laiho

Several of the games on GoDartsPro were created by Mikko Laiho (r.i.p. my friend) and he had a background as a proven TV professional level darts coach working with several of Winmau’s players. He was also the creator of the groundbreaking “12 weeks practice program” that delivered simply unbelievable results, that were tracked and proven.

Here are some articles he wrote about darts practice during his work with GoDartsPro:
Why keep track of your darts practice?
How often should I practise darts?
How much should I practise darts?

Mikko explaining his concept – the MICO-factor

Mixing up your darts training

Darts is all about the right mindset. Naturally you need a proper practice and hopefully your throwing action is easy, strong, steady and economical as well, but that’s more or less debatable, as top pros like Mensur Suljovic and John Henderson have proved.
So what would be the best way to improve the space between your ears?

That’s not that difficult, you need to practise such games and routines that you enjoy. They need to be suitably challenging, their difficulty level must be right for you and you need to like to do them. So you need to gain some WINS under your belt. Might they be just a little wins. A win might be just a proper score or getting through your favorite routine swiftly. That’s how you learn to win because your biggest opponent and nemesis has always been and will be forever yourself.

So you need to win yourself before winning anybody else!

Nothing replaces going solo

If you like to play against your mates that’s totally fine as well, as long as you remember that nothing in this world beats solo practice! Try always to play against the same level of player or just a tad better than you.
In solo practise it’s preferable to play two kinds of games per day, not many more. I suggest that you plan your routines beforehand and think ahead rather a week than a single day.

Best-of-games

Grouping, doubles, and finishes are the basic main groups we all know, but there are also many different kind of things that counts as darts practice as well. We could talk about ‘best–of–games’ against a single target, say you missed your last league match 6 darts to Tops so you want to beat it in your next session. Play against double 20 say best of 11 (first to 6 wins/legs). If you consider yourself a pub player you get a point every time you finish 40 points (D20) by normal 01-game style so if you hit single you have 20 (D10) left and so on.
You get it, it’s 1-0 to you. If you don’t the imaginary opponent gets a point. If you can finish it twice in the same throw, you get 2 points, and so on. If you’re a superleague or county player, you can make the rule of missing that the opponent gets 2 points. ‘Best of –games’ can also be played against 201 for example. If you’re a normal player, play against 12 darts. If you play superleague, use only 9 darts. If you’re a county-level player, what prevents you play against 221 or 241 as well?! Use your imagination and be fair to your true level because the more you win, the more enjoyable all is and the good old cranium resonates positively from inside!

“HIT & RUN”–games

These are essential practice routines to get your personal rhythm to a state of FLOW or ZONE. You need these games every day you practise. Mikko’s MegaTrain is a good example of a brilliant top-level Hit & Run -game, but if you aren’t on that level yet, I’d strongly suggest you to do some more humane games from our ‘Starter-Pack’ {{LINK}} section. If those feel too easy for you, don’t worry, you belong to our exact target group and you better just adjust StarterPack games a little bit more difficult.

Grouping games

We very strongly suggest that every day you practise, you should have at least one grouping game in your program. Treble 20-hammering is 75 % of the game so you want to be very good in that. You can get better in scoring doing grouping games like all the different bundles-games on GoDartsPro, Mikko’s MegaTrain and A1 to mention only a few.

Doubles games

Straightforward double routines belong to every self-respecting darts player’s selection. There are many of them, pick the best one for you for today, because you can always change it for another one for another day!

Finishing games

We’ve got these naturally, and we got quite a few to choose from and vary your training with.
GrindOut, Catch 40, 121, Checkout Challenge, Five Checkouts, and 201 Challenge to name a few.

PICK TWO AND GO!

So our suggestion is to pick games from two categories per day and don’t forget to have a day or two off per week!
Remember, it’s up to you!

Text: Mikko Laiho (RIP)

Darts is a great sport to start with at young age

Actually, darts is the perfect sport for any age!

Playing darts is a perfect low-intensity sport for anyone. For younger players to sharpen their reflexes, and older ones to prevent natural deterioration of hand-eye coordination over the years. Playing darts requires you to maintain higher levels of focus and concentration and have meditational effects. As darts is a numbers game everyone who plays darts will improve their numeracy skills.

Learning through play

Educational applications of games can be really powerful for any age. Using games is also really useful when it comes to learning and transferring factual knowledge. If learning becomes fun and easy, people are actually quicker to engage and benefit.

Maths and counting can be difficult for people, even if it is only the subtraction part of maths that is required. No matter how much they try, they still think it is like reading in some language they don’t understand.

How to practice darts on GoDartsPro

On GoDartsPro.com there are more than 80 different darts games to play and improve with. Games suitable from everyone. From complete beginners to professional players seen on TV. Games only intended to be played for fun as well as dedicated training games to improve certain aspects of the game of darts.

As with any children’s game or sport, children will gain motivation when their achievements are recognized. Playing games on GoDartsPro will unlock badges and you can compare your scores with different leaderboards and monthly challenges.

Click here to browse through the games on GoDartsPro

Play darts for fun on GoDartsPro

On GoDartsPro you will not only find +100 training games. There are also a section with FUN GAMES to be played with family and friends when the real focused darts training is finished for the day. The games can be played by 2 to 8 players and there are many fun games to choose from. More games are added regularly as well.
Some of the games also have handicap option so you can set up a tight game even if you’re at different levels.
The FUN GAMES are also included in the Premium Membership on GoDartsPro!

JDC (Junior Darts Corporation)

JDC offer parents, mentors and juniors a fun start in darts for players of all levels from the ages of 8 to 18. The JDC structure allows people passionate about darts to get involved at grassroots helping juniors enjoy the game. The JDC is built on good sportsmanship, having fun and playing in a non pressured environment.

GoDartsPro have sponsored JDC with online tools for their academies, coaches and players since 2018.

Click here to visit the JDC website

PDC Bullseye Maths

The great initiative by PDC ‘Bullseye Maths’ has been launched to help Key Stage 2 students and anyone interested in maths with numeracy in a fun and inclusive way using the Mathlete game below and downloadable worksheets. GoDartsPro has been involved and provided initially the Mathlete game for the project.
Visit the PDC Bullseye Maths website and follow Room 180 Academy on Twitter.

Small Changes will make a big difference

Many people overestimate the importance of one defining moment behind success. Like it will happen overnight. The same thing for underestimating the value of making small improvements on a daily basis. For darts, it’s been common to think that we all need to practice 6-8 hours per day to reach success.

Success comes from daily habits and not over-the-night transformations. Don’t focus too much worrying about your current 501-average and performance. What really matters is setting up habits that put you on the right track towards your success. If you set up good habits for your darts training, your will improve and your 501-average will increase.

In the early and middle stages of your darts career, there is often a lot of frustration and disappointment. You expect to improve fast, almost in a linear fashion but while playing you doesn’t feel like you are going anywhere.

Change your identity

The more we repeat a behavior, the more we reinforce the identity associated with that behavior. If we always say to ourselves: ”I’m lousy at darts” we’re identifying being a person who always misses the targets and will never get better. Therefore, no matter what level you’re playing at, every time you step up to the oche, you need to change your identity and say to yourself:
”I’m a darts player – I’m improving every day”

The point of a good habit is not that it needs to be done perfectly every day.
The point is to choose the identity that you want so that the rest of your progress will be smoother.
Missing a planned darts practice one day is not a big deal. But there’s something to what James Clear (the author of ‘Atomic Habits’) said:
“Missing once is an accident. Missing twice is the start of a new habit.”

Motivation encourages people to never miss twice, and to go back the next day after you missed and maybe practice even harder or more focused. But remember that missing twice is not the end of your habit. The end of your habit is when you decide you cannot or won’t do it anymore.

Making it easier and more fun to practice darts at home will make you throw more darts.
Getting a new set of darts, a new dartboard or maybe a Scolia device to autotrack your darts will give your inspiration to practice a boost.

Remember that there’s also some kind of ripple effect with habits. Starting a new habit can easily create a chain of new habits in other areas. If you start a habit to exercise regularly, you probably will try to start to eat healthier as well…

Motivation is not everything! The environment can often matter more!

Setting up a nice area in your home where you really feel inspired to practice will probably lead to more practice. If you have a tiny space where you for example often need to rearrange furnitures or make a change to be able to practice darts, can be the reason why you practice less and less and probably will quit playing darts. Environment matters so make sure you make the best out of it. It is so much easier to build up a good habit practising every day, when you feel inspired and enjoy what you do.
Google ”darts set up home” and you’ll see photos that can inspire you to set up your practice area at home.

My own practice area at home. I spend hours there every day, practicing or playing darts for fun and trying out new game ideas, so I wanted a nice place where I enjoy staying for hours. Guess if I do…

Conclusion: “We are what we repeatedly do” (Aristotle)

It is estimated that more than 40% of our daily actions are conducted by habits, but we may not be aware of it but habits control a big part of our lives.

Good habits are very essential for making progress in darts. If you have good habits for your darts practice and follow them every day, you’re on the right track for success. By being aware of your good habits will also give your confidence and your energy level a much-needed boost.

If you really want to improve in darts, make it a habit to use the Virtual Coach on a daily basis!

If you’re interested to know more about habits, I recommend you to read the book “Atomic Habits” by James Clear.

“Failure comes from small errors repeated every day,
success comes from small disciplines practiced every day.”
– Jim Rohn

Effective Goal Setting Strategy

New Year’s Eve is a time when we look forward to the year ahead and think about what we want and who we want to become, then set goals to achieve our outcomes. There’s nothing wrong with that, but to really improve in darts you need to work on that strategy a bit…
Most important when setting goals are:

Make goals specific, observable and in measurable terms

Setting general goals such as improving your scoring abilities is easy but it becomes hard to determine
how to do this without specific directives. By specifying how and when to do things will help to this end. Observable goals for your practice are those that can be measured and are specific.

The Virtual Coach is coded to work this way for your training.
The Virtual Coach sets short-term reasonable goals for you to achieve, to reach your long-term goal.
The goals are set to be just on top of your average to make you try to reach your peak performance. That’s how you’ll improve and that’s why you should use the Virtual Coach for your training.

Set a time limit for your goal

Trying to improve your average will be ineffective unless you have a specified date or event to work towards. Is this goal to be accomplished by the end of today’s practice session? The end of the week? Before an important tournament? Well-stated goals should be timely.

It is better to set moderate goals than easy or very difficult goals since it will push you to work hard in order to meet the goals. These goals are also more satisfying when reached.

Use multiple short-range goals to achieve your long range plans

The short-term goals are ‘short’ for a purpose. They bridge the gap between how you play right now and how you want to be able to play. These goals are, but not limited to; tasks, to-do’s to be accomplished within a short time frame not more than a year. Divide your long-term goals into multiple short-term goals.

Set practice as well as competition goals

If you’re also playing in different competitions, it is also important to set competitions goals.
Don’t just focus on your average. Set goals for how many ton+ you’ll throw, how many 180’s or how few < 60 you'll throw during a game or period.

Celebrate Your Success (It’ll Help You Reach Your Goals)

As important it is to forget your bad games or throws, it’s equally important to celebrate when you reach your goals.
If you celebrate your victories or when you’ve reached a goal, it will give you a great feeling and it will stay stronger in your memory and will be important to build your confidence in the long run.
Celebrating achievement will boost your confidence and increase motivation!

The point is to take a little time to reflect back on all the work you put in to achieve an accomplishment and relish the feeling of reaching your goal. Gratitude also promotes a positive mindset toward your next goal. The power of positive thoughts is truly immeasurable.

Celebrating your success will also help you aim higher in your goal development and build rituals and habits to make sustainable success a part of your lifestyle. You’ll simultaneously celebrate success and shift your focus to a new goal.

Treat yourself with a gift can be a satisfying and fun way to celebrate an accomplishment you’ve been working so hard to achieve. Maybe a new set of darts (that’s how Peter Wright normally celebrates btw 😉 …), a new cool darts shirt or maybe extend your premium membership for one year?

It is not just for fun, there’s actually science behind rewarding success.
There’s a part of your brain called the “reward system” that is activated when you reward or reinforce something stimulating, which releases dopamine. When you experience the dopamine reward, your brain pays attention to what you did to deserve your “feel-good” moment. Your brain calculates what’s needed to repeat that action and move toward achieving your goals. In science we trust!

So set your goals right now and make sure to practice hard to reach them!

MAKE IT COUNT!

Darts games to sharpen your finishing skills

Spending many hours of deliberately practicing finishes will improve your skills in many ways. Depending on which routines you use you will be practicing power scoring, hitting doubles, darts maths, etc. As a result, you will also improve your accuracy, concentration, and stamina. Practice finishes 100% focused and don’t always aim to better your high score and your confidence will improve as well. You should therefore add a good amount of your training time to various finishing routines.

Finish the checkout within 9 darts.
For each finished checkout, the next checkout will be increased.
If you finish the checkout within 3 darts, that checkout is also locked and is your new base checkout.
If you don’t finish a checkout within 9 darts you are back to your base checkout.
Play as long as you want or if you reach 170!
Play 121 »

Grindout is a really tough game but also a very good one.
Six darts in use and you’ll try to take the out from 81 in 2 to 6 darts.
You need to finish your target number with six darts, starting from 81. Depending on your level, aim either to go until you’ve done 90 (Novice-level), 120 (Rookie-level), 140 (League player) or 170 (Advanced level). If you get the finish what you aim for in six darts, you move ahead to the next number. If you don’t get it, you drop one point backward. If you get any finish at three darts or less, that number becomes locked and you can’t drop below that anymore.

Play Grindout »

Frustration is also a very tough game used by many professional darts players on a regular basis.
Hit the minimum score at the current level (ex 80) with the first 2 darts.
Then hit the current double to finish from double 20 down to the ending number.
Choose minimum score, ending number, number of scores to finish a number, and if you want continuous/loop order.
Play Frustration »

A great MICO-factor game similar to 121 but with a twist.
Use max 9 darts to finish 01-game style on the double.
Start from 121 then 122 and so on until 130.
Play Shooting Gallery »

Start with the checkout 21 and need to finish it (501-style) in 3 darts. If you manage to finish the checkout in 3 darts, next checkout will increased by 10 = 31.
If you fail to checkout within 3 darts, next checkout will be reduced by one if you’re on a bigger checkout than you started with.
The last checkout you finished when the game is ended will be your score.
Play Checkout Challenge »

Try to take the out (61-100) in 2 to 6 darts.
Score for taking the out in 2-6 darts. If you miss out in 6 darts, press MISS button and go for next out.
Play Catch 40 »

Your targets are the important doubles to master.
Throw one dart on each double and track your hits.
If you manage to hit all three doubles you get one extra turn.
Doubles are:
16-8-4
20-10-5
12-6-3
8-4-2
Play Switching Doubles »

Also, check out Winmau Practice Zone for more games to play!

Good games to practice if you’re new to darts

Many of the darts practice games out there are too hard to use for darts players in the beginning of their darts careers.
If the games are too hard it is easy to lose interest and quit. It is also very important for all players to play training games suitable for their level.
Also, an intermediate or advanced player having a slump can gain confidence by playing slightly easier games for a few days.
So, here’s a list with a few games beginners can enjoy and improve with when they want to take their darts training a bit more seriously. Use these games on a regular basis to play better darts!
Playing training games designed to challenge and improve the player is the best way to kickstart the darts career.

In this game, you need to close all the 5 sections with at least 5 points on each. Section 1 to 4 all have three number fields. You get 3 points if you hit the center field and 1 point if you hit either of the adjacent fields.The first section, for example, have the fields 5 – 20 – 1. You get 3 points for hitting the 20 and 1 point for hitting number 5 or 1.The last section you aim for bulls-eye. 3 points for the bull (double or single) and 1 point for darts inside the treble ring (not treble). Finish the game with as few darts as possible.
Play Section 5 »

You need to hit three throws (nine darts) inside of the treble ring to get to the next level.If any of them hits the treble or gets further away from the middle, you lose one life and need to restart the level. Try to finish all 3 levels with your 3 lives. At level 2 you also need to hit one bull (double or single) and for level 3 you need to hit two bulls (doubles or singles) within 9 darts.
Play Insider »

21 is a fun darts practice game for beginners to get training all over the board. In the game 21, you use three darts to get to the number 21. Your randomly suggested combination shows in red on the two first cards. Hit the first suggest number gives you 1 extra point. Get 21 with 2 darts gives you 5 points and a bonus throw. During the bonus throw, you need to hit inside the treble ring and gives you 3 extra points. Get the score 21 with 3 darts gives you 3 points. If you get more than 21 you’re busted and no score for this round. Trebles and doubles count as singles in this game. 10 throws!

Play 21 »

The virus attacks the red numbers of the board (20, 18, 13, etc) and you need to fight it by hitting the attacked fields. The number on each target shows how bad the grade is of the attack. If any virus attack exceeds grade 5 it is game over. For each dart you hit the attack is reduced. Hit singles, doubles and trebles. After every throw, the attack increases depending on your game level. In Challenge Mode you try to keep playing as many throws as possible and try to reach the leaderboard.

Play The Lockdown Challenge »

Throw 3 darts on each number and track your hits.1 point per single hit, 2 for double and 3 for treble. Maximum 9 points per number.
End with bull where 25 gives you 1 point and bulls eye 2.
Play The PAW Game »

Also, check out Winmau Practice Zone for more games to play!

The Premium League of darts on GoDartsPro

The Premium League was developed to inspire you to practice harder, more focused and under pressure.

The best way to build solid confidence in your game is to dedicate yourself to consistent deliberate practice. Adopt deliberate practice by thinking that every dart is the crucial dart and make it count. Get the most out of your practice you by trying to perform on your peak performance during every training session to push yourself further.

Improve with GoDartsPro Premium League

While playing your favourite training games you’re also competing in the Premium League. Your 10 best scores the latest 30 days will make up your total score for the leaderboards. These scores are your peak performance of the game for the month.
Therefore, you need to continuously try to beat your previous scores to climb the leaderboard. In addition as a bonus, you will improve while having fun.

Premium League is universal

Members from all over the world are competing in the Premium League which means you have thousands of opponents to try to beat. As a result, seeing your name and flag on the leaderboard will boost your confidence. However, we all know what confidence will do for your game…
Make it a personal challenge to get your name and flag on all Premium League leaderboards.

Multiple games to choose from

Some of the most effective games have been added to make Premium League your new tool to improve faster.
8 of the games so far are also MICO-Factor games, so as a bonus you might also raise your MICO-factor while trying to climb the Premium League leaderboards.

Continuously running league to keep you on your toes

The Premium League leaderboards are made up of your top 10 scores last 30 days to force you to consistently practice the games to keep your ranking.
Knowing that some of your best scores soon will drop out from the 30 days limit adds pressure to the game and will again force you to try to perform on your peak performance.

Who can join the Premium League?

All you need to do to join the Premium League is to upgrade to Premium on GoDartsPro.
It is yours for less than €0.20/day and gives you access to more than 100 games, training concepts like MasterClass, Challenges and now Premium League.

Practice like a pro and join Premium League now!

The Premium League is the latest training concept on GoDartsPro.com!
With the premium membership, you will not only get access to the Premium League,the +100 games, the famous Virtual Coach on the website. You will also get all the extra premium functionality, such as in-game stats, extended stats, challenges, battles as well as the additional options in many of the games.
In conclusion, your passion for darts deserves the best. Get the most out of your practice by staying inspired for a long time. Upgrade to Premium now!

Upgrade to Premium now!

Check out the Premium League Leaderboards!

6 darts practice games to improve your doubles

If you stick with a one-dimensional approach for your darts practice you will lose focus quickly and your training sessions will be boring. Just throwing darts at double 20 hour after hour would lead to losing interest and forget about exactly why you started to play darts.
When many players start to practice doubles they go for Bob’s 27. Nothing wrong with good old Bob’s 27 but luckily there are more games to use to really improve the doubles. Therefore we’ve got many different games where you need to focus on hitting doubles.

What is the best way to practice doubles?

This must be natural to you already, but never underestimate the power of repetition. The business end of the match is always doubles. If you want to improve hitting your doubles you need to deliberately practice trying to hit the doubles for a good amount of time. All those hours are important to learn which muscles are needed to hit each double and tune them in to be able to hit them consistently. You need to get that “feel” when the throw is right or not as soon as the dart leaves the hand.

Doubles can be practised in many different ways and the best way to keep your focus high and to stay inspired is to vary your practice. Try each of the following games and find your favourites to throw into your training sessions from now on to spice up your practice.

Tony David (BDO World Championship winner) invented and used this game to sharpen his doubles skills. So why shouldn’t you use it to improve your doubles?!

Hit each double clockwise on board starting with 1. One dart on each so first throw will be double 1, 18 and 4. If you hit the double it is locked and you move on. If you miss a double you need to return to it on the next throw. Use as few darts as possible.

Play Doubles Boomerang »

In this game, your targets are the important doubles to master. Throw one dart on each double and track your hits.
If you manage to hit all three doubles you get one extra turn.

The doubles are:
16-8-4
20-10-5
12-6-3
8-4-2
Play Switching Doubles »

Setting up a list of great doubles games without “Doubles Lock” would be incomplete.
This is a really effective and fun doubles darts practice game with a twist that makes it challenging and puts you under heavy pressure. This game will improve your doubles fast!
You throw 3 darts on each double from 20 to 1.
You need to hit at least 1 dart on the double to move on to next double.
If you hit 2 or 3 darts on the double the double is locked and the next double is now your new starting double. If you fail to hit the double with your 3 darts you need to start over on your starting double.

Play Doubles Lock »

This is not a doubles-only game, but a fun all-over-the-board game, which strengthens your focus.
If you manage to hit the doubles you will get a good score in this game.
This game should be played daily right after a proper warmup.

Play The Three Stooges »

You start with the score 420 and your goal is to bring it down to or below zero.
Your targets are the doubles from 1-20 + bull’s eye.
If you, for example, hit two double 1 – your score will be reduced by 4 (two double 1 is 4 points) and you move on to number 2.

The pressure increases by the target numbers and if you hit 3 bull’s eye your score will be reduced by 150! Can you go below zero?!

Play the 420 game »

Short and simple doubles training game. In 501’s you want to end up on an even double to get another double shot if you miss and hit a single on the first try. So in this game, you only practice the even doubles. Throw 3 darts on each of the even doubles from 20 to 2 and track your hits.

Play Doubles Down »

Ten darts practice games that will boost your gameplay

This article will show you ten different online darts training games that will improve your skills at the dartboard. Try them all and find your favourite practice routines to use for your daily darts training.

I often hear or see the questions :

‘How to practice darts’ or ‘How do I improve faster’?

First thing you need to acknowledge is there are no short-cuts whatsoever. It’s all about the dedication, the work, the hours put in, quality training, your ability to really focus during practice, the right mindset, the right attitude, the right gear and right environment you create.

Here’s a list of ten games that you should use on a regular basis to get better in darts and to improve faster.

This game is a variant of the old Doubles Around The Clock/World but with a few important changes. The changes add the so important pressure to the game and it also got a funny twist to make it more game-like and challenging to play. I often use this game right after a proper warm-up when I’m fully focused.
Targets are double 20 to 1 and you need to hit at least one of the target double to continue to the next.
If you miss the double with all three darts you’re back to the starting double.
To lock a double you need to hit at least two darts.
Play game on GoDartsPro »

Many of the games on GoDartsPro are aiming to improve your finishing skills to prepare you for the big matches and tournaments. With this game, you will practice the most important doubles in a game-like style.

You’ll try to hit all the even doubles from 10 to 20 and you need to “finish” from the double as soon as you can. If your target is Doubles 10 but you hit single 10, you need to go for double 5 etc.
But if you hit the double with your first or second dart, you’re free to score as much as you can on the board.
Play game on GoDartsPro »

121 is another popular and important finishing game with a fun twist to make it more inspiring to play. Try to finish the score 121 within 6 darts (9 darts in easy-mode on GoDartsPro) to move to 122 etc. If you manage to finish the score with 3 darts the score is locked and is your new base checkout. If you fail to finish the score you’re back to the start or base checkout if you’ve locked a score.
Play game on GoDartsPro »

This game will put you under important pressure.
The target numbers are 7 to 12 and for each target number, you will also try to score heavily with 3 darts. The number of hits you get on the target number will be multiplied with the score so it is important to both be able to hit the target numbers as well as to score heavily afterwards.
It doesn’t matter if you hit three treble 7:s if you don’t manage to hit a good score afterwards.
For example, if you hit three treble 7:s but only manage to score 26 with the following three darts your score for #7 will be: 9 x 26 = 234. If you instead manage to hit 180 your score will be massive 1620 for the target number.
Play game on GoDartsPro »

This is a great game to sharpen your grouping skills. Your main targets are 20-13 and you need to hit at least two darts to get a mark for the current number. The game is finished when you got five marks on each number. On GoDartsPro your practice session is timed so you can also compete against yourself to finish the game faster then the previous one.
This is a great game to use at the end of your warming up routine and it is suitable for all kind of player levels (beginners to advanced players). Game invented by George Silberzahn and can be found in his book – “Darts – Beginning to end”.
Play game on GoDartsPro »

This is a great assessment game and it is invented and used by Junior Darts Corporation (JDC) to grade the players for their Academies.

The game has three parts.
Shanghai 10-15 – Three darts on each number
Doubles 1-20+BULL – One dart on each
Shanghai 15-20 – Three darts on each number

If you hit Shanghai (1 single + 1 double + 1 treble) you get a Bonus of 100 points. On the doubles round, you get 50 points for each double and a bonus of 50 points for BULL.
Play game on GoDartsPro »

The Shooting Gallery is a great MICO-factor game that will sharpen your finishing skills. Use a maximum of 9 darts to finish the scores in a 01-game style, from 121 to 130. If you finish the score within 3 darts you get 12 points compared to 1 point for finishing with 9 darts. Try to improve your total points for each session.
Play game on GoDartsPro »

This is a fun MICO-factor game that force you to hit singles, doubles and trebles and it will reward you when you hit the targets with two or three darts. Since the targets are a mix of singles, doubles and trebles this is a good overall practice for beginners to more advanced players.
Play game on GoDartsPro »

The ultimate assessment game or ”The only game Chuck Norris would play” as good old Mikko Laiho once said about The Crown Judgement.
Since this game is intended to be used as an assessment tool it is only playable once per month on GoDartsPro. Practice hard between the sessions and you will notice good improvement over time.
The game consists of five different parts and will take about one hour to finish.
Play game on GoDartsPro »

One of Mikko Laiho’s favourite games to use during the coaching of intermediate to advanced players.
This game is great to use as a part of the end of your daily warming up routine.
Aim for the bull and you need to score at least 25 per every throw or your need to start over again.
Try to reach 300 if you’re an Intermediate Player, 500 for an advanced player and 1000 for an expert player.
Play game on GoDartsPro »

Timing is everything in darts – also when it comes to practice. An average match lasts approximately 25-35 minutes, and if you transfer that to solo-training that would be somewhere of the region of 20 minutes.

So practise with your times and set it up for 20 mins. After that have a break of 5-10 minutes and you’re good to go again. After two short sessions, you are best to have a proper break, say 30-45 minutes before throwing again. Then you get the rest your body and mainly mind requires.

Try to make your practice so interesting and enjoyable that you can’t wait to get back to the board!

Always try to compete as much as you can, practice only quality and interesting games and never ever forget that after all, it’s up to you!

And as always – enjoy your darts! Otherwise, you won’t improve!

Doubles Lock
10-20
121
Exponential Bundle
A1
JDC Challenge
Shooting Gallery
Three Stooges
Crown Judgement
Dead Centre

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The Premium League was developed to inspire you to practice harder, more focused and under pressure.

Improve with GoDartsPro Premium League

Premium League is universal

Multiple games to choose from

Continuously running league to keep you on your toes

Who can join the Premium League?

Practice like a pro and join Premium League now!

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Doubles Down

‘How to practice darts’ or ‘How do I improve faster’?

10 great darts training games

Doubles Lock

10-20

121

Exponential Bundle

A1

JDC Challenge

Shooting Gallery

Three Stooges

Crown Judgement

Dead Centre (also called Kill Bull)

Darts practice in a nutshell…

Practice them doubles!

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‘How to practice darts’ or ‘How do I improve faster’?

10 great darts training games

Doubles Lock

10-20

121

Exponential Bundle