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As a premium member you get access to:
* More than 100 darts training games
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Besides all these valuable and fun features for your darts, with the premium membership we also store all your statistics.This way you can easily follow up your training sessions and continue to use the Virtual Coach for example, which use your stats a lot to suggest new tasks for you.
GoDartsPro is a social darts training platform where you can use the other members scores as triggers and goals for your own training. You can also use the public playlists from thousands of members to get inspiration to practise structured in a new way.
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Since GoDartsPro also sponsors the Junior Darts Cooperation (JDC), Winmau Team 360 and JDC Cadets, by upgrading to premium you’re also helping the future of darts trying to reach their dreams and goals.
First of all, you’ve come to the right place to kick-start your career and grow as a darts player.
There are games suitable for all kinds of players but with so many games it can be tricky to know how to start.
Here’s an article about good games suitable for beginners:
Good games to practice if you’re new to darts
I also recommend to read these articles to get the most out of your training:
How often should I practice darts?
How much should I practice at darts?
Why keep track of your darts practice?
The power of good habits!
Effective Goal Setting Strategy
Also, if you have any questions or feel you’re stuck, send me an email or direct message on FB/Twitter/Instagram and I will try to guide you right.
/Anders
All the premium members can use the Virtual Coach for their practice.
The Virtual Coach is not just for professional players. Even the beginners can have good fun and use with the Virtual Coach.
Click on Virtual Coach in the top menu (or the blue/pink skulle to the right in the header) to go to the Virtual Coach area.
If you haven’t yet started to use the Virtual Coach, you will first get some more information about the concept. You will then face a player form that you first need to enter.
Be honest when you’re entering your details in this form since it will be used and based for your activities with the Virtual Coach.
Once this is done you will be asked to play different tasks needs you need to achieve to start the coaching.
Click on the unfinished task to complete them one by one. Some might be a bit tough for your level, but it is all used by the Virtual Coach to understand your current level.
The Virtual Coach base its coaching and tasks based on your previous activities and results on GoDartsPro.
NOTE! You have to get your MICO-factor first, by playing at least 5 of the MICO-factor games – 5 times each!
Click on the image below to see your current MICO-factor stats:
Once you’ve finished your required tasks you will be shown to the Virtual Coach area.
The Virtual Coach will suggests tasks with games for you to finish every day. The goals are mostly based on your statistics and previous sessions for the game.
But if you haven’t yet played the game, the Virtual Coach will compare your other stats with the thousands of members on GoDartsPro, and try to suggest a reasonable goal for you.
You’re now ready to investigate the different functions and information on the Virtual Coach area.
Check this Support FAQ for more information and please contact GoDartsPro whenever you have any questions or suggestions.
To unlock the support for your Scolia Device on GoDartsPro.com you need to register your serial number of your Scolia device on GoDartsPro.
Make sure also to check the FAQ at Scolia’s website for more information.
Head over to the Scolia page on GoDartsPro and get started!
Check out our video on Youtube for more information!
It is a good thing to vary the intensity and lengths of your training sessions and not just play the same games you feel confident to finish or score well at. Luckily we’ve got some really demanding and tough games to challenge yourself every now and then!
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Mikko’s Megatrain
Mikko Laihos idea about this game was to create a demanding and hard game for intermediate to advanced players. |
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Grindout
Try to take the out from 81 in 2 to 6 darts (the game got different options for different levels). |
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Crown Judgement
This is our new flagship, the Crown Judgement! You can play this game only once a month, so you better get your focus right before starting this game. |
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Five Checkouts
The well know PDC player Kim Huybrechts was kind enough to send me a list of the games he’s been playing the past 10-15 years or so. The Five Checkouts was one of them and I added a few twists to the game to make it more fun and challenging. |
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Hit minimum score with first 2 darts only scoring at S20 and T20. Then hit the current double to finish. From double 20 down to ending number. Choose the minimum score, ending number, number of scores to finish a number and if you want continuous/loop order. |
By upgrading to PREMIUM MEMBERSHIP you will get access to all the games and training concepts on GoDartsPro, such as:
* More than 100 training games (Jan 2024)
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and much more. All this for about €0.19 / day when you choose to pay for 1 year upfront.
You will also get access to training articles, game information and all the updates of the platform such as new games and features.
As a premium member, all your stats will be saved and since you will automatically get all the updates, the premium membership will only be more and more valuable.
Just visit the Premium page and scroll down to the section shown in this image:
There you first see options for purchasing premium as a monthly subscription or to go for the annual right away using PaPal.
There are also options to pay using Stripe (it is just a different purchase provider) instead.
You can also choose to Give away a Gift Card that will unlock 1 year premium for the person who receives it.
A digital gift card will be emailed that includes a unique code that only can be used once.
Visit the premium page and scroll down to the section where you see:
Enter the code exactly as it is shown on the gift card (both uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and special characters can be involved) to unlock the premium.
Learning the darts maths can be really hard and daunting in the beginning and it is easy to rely on app/website darts scorers to understand what checkout is left and needed to finish the leg.
On forums and Facebook groups the answer to ”How do I learn darts maths” from more experienced players is often ”Start chalking” or ”Just play more 501’s”. These answers will improve your maths skills eventually but there are smarter ways to learn and remember the important checkouts. It is just as learning any skills, the best way is to both do practical and theoretical training to learn the skill as fast as possible.
Researchers have discovered that educational applications of games might be even more powerful than we ever anticipated. The use of games is really useful when it comes to learning and transferring factual knowledge. It’s obvious that when learning becomes fun and easy, people are quicker to engage and benefit.
That’s why learning how to calculate in combination with remembering the different checkout combinations is the fastest way to learn darts maths.
With these games, you can practice darts on the bus, train, or on a flight without the need for a board and darts. Being regularly visually exposed to checkouts and training your brain to either calculate the checkouts or just remember the combinations, will speed up your darts maths skills. Learning while playing games are also a proven successful combination.
The Flip Out – Darts Maths game will teach darts maths in a new fun way. Match the cards shown to complete every level. Now you can play the game on GoDartsPro!
You’ll be shown cards with suggested checkouts and you need to decide if the checkout card is TRUE or FALSE. Swipe RIGHT for TRUE and LEFT for FALSE.
You got 60 seconds to play and get as many correct answers as possible.
The key to any practice is repetition!
Darts Mathlete is all about repetition. You choose the checkout to start with and you then will be shown alternatives to solve the checkout. If you select the correct combination to continue to the next checkout. If you fail you have to start all over again. Repeat and become the Darts Mathlete your game deserves!
Read more about Darts Mathlete here
Play online here
In this maths game you will be presented 10 scores between 41 and 170 along with 9 different finishes. One of them is right and eight is wrong.
Your score and response time will be tracked.
These games are all about finishes and you’ll be constantly exposed to checkouts. Both games start at lower checkouts which makes them easier to start with.
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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 for the project. Visit the Bullseye Maths website and follow Room 180 Academy on Twitter.
If you haven’t yet register, click here to sign up for free!
If you’re a new member and don’t know where to start, here’s a quick guide!
GoDartsPro is all about darts training and on the Game On page on GoDartsPro you’ll find many different games to play.
Just click on the different game images to start the game. You will then be redirected to the game where the games might have different options to choose from before you click start to kick off the training session.
Once you’ve played and finished a game, it will appear in the list of “Your latest played games” for fast access.
If you enjoyed the game you can add it to your favourite list of games.
Just click the small white square top right of every game image and it will automatically turn into a heart.
To access your favourite games list, just click the round heart symbol in the top right of the header on every page.
To the right of the game on page you’ll see a list “Find game” and a filter icon next to it.
Click the “Find game” to show a list of all the games available on this page. If you know the name, just type the first letters in the field and it will automatically filter the list.
If you click the filter icon you’ll see a small popup dialog where you can filter the page of the type and length game and the games on the page will automatically filter.
This is a phrase that either can drive you crazy or you figure out what it’s all about and use it to reach your goals.
“But what’s this got to do with darts or darts training?” a few of you probably wonder. The direct answer is EVERYTHING!
If you really want to reach your goals and dreams, you better start take a look at yourself, your self-concept, attitude, and identity.
“Are you a person that will succeed or a person who’s lacking the grit to do what it takes? Are you a fighter or a quitter?”
Your self-concept is the picture you have of yourself. It is the story you tell yourself about who you are as a player. Are you a fighter who never gives up? A player who performs under pressure? Or someone who starts doubting their ability after a few mistakes? The interesting thing is that your self-concept influences how you react to different situations on the dartboard.
When you win, do you see it as proof that your hard work is paying off, or do you think you were simply lucky? When you lose, do you view it as an opportunity to learn, or as evidence that you’re not good enough?
Players with a strong and healthy self-concept understand that results do not define them. A great match does not make them a great person, and a poor match does not make them a poor player. They focus on the process, their effort, and their development.
The next time you play a match, pay attention to your inner dialogue. How do you react after a missed double? How do you respond when your opponent throws a big score? Those reactions reveal a lot about your self-concept.
Remember: confidence is not believing you’ll win every match. Confidence is believing you’ll be okay regardless of the result and that you’ve prepared and done what you can before the match, to give you the best chance to win.
The player you become is shaped not only by the darts you throw, but by the story you tell yourself after every throw.
Your attitude as a darts player plays a huge role in how you perform, especially when the pressure starts to build. Every player will face missed doubles, frustrating visits, and opponents who suddenly can’t stop hitting big scores. What matters is how you respond.
Pressure is part of the game. The best players don’t try to avoid it – they learn to embrace it. A little adrenaline can sharpen your focus and help you perform at your best when the match is on the line. That’s one of the reasons that it is important to regularly practise under pressure. That will make you get used to the situation and learn how to make the most out of it.
No matter how experienced you are, mistakes will happen. You’ll miss doubles. You’ll throw poor visits. You’ll lose matches you felt you should have won. A game you were way in front of your opponent suddenly turns to an even game.
A strong darts attitude means accepting what happened, letting it go, and putting all your attention on the next dart.
Your mindset can either help you recover or pull you deeper into frustration. Players who stay positive and solution-focused are far more likely to bounce back after setbacks and finish matches strongly.
Attitude isn’t only about how you react to your own darts. It’s also about how you treat opponents, teammates, and fellow players. Respecting others, staying composed, and showing good sportsmanship are qualities that define great darts players both on and off the oche.
At the end of the day, attitude is a choice. Every visit to the board gives you a new opportunity to respond positively, stay focused, and become a stronger player.
Every darts player develops an identity. Some see themselves as competitors, others as students of the game, and some thrive on performing under pressure. Unlike many sports that rely heavily on physical strength and endurance, darts is a unique blend of precision, technique, focus, and mental control.
You’ve probably heard it many times from different players or coaches, that darts is 95% a mental sport. So make sure to work on your mental strength as well.
The strongest players build a self-concept based on trust in their ability. They know they have put in the work, they trust the process, built up good habits, repeated the fundamentals thousands of times, and followed and developed routines they can rely on when the pressure rises. We’ve mentioned it before – practise makes permanent! This confidence isn’t wishful thinking. It comes from preparation. When everything clicks, when you’re in the zone, players often enter a flow state where throwing feels natural and automatic.
Your darts identity also shapes how you respond to setbacks. Missed doubles, poor scoring visits, and tough losses are part of the game. Build up strong and healthy self-concept and don’t let a bad leg define you. Instead, look at challenges as temporary obstacles, learn from them, and quickly refocus on the next dart, the next leg, and the next opportunity.
And don’t forget: Enjoy your darts and make it count!
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
✅ 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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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.
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.
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.”
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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I’m trying to start using the Virtual Coach but how do I see which MICO-factor games I’ve played, and what games I still need to play?
To get your initial MICO-factor you need to play at least 5 different MICO-factor games, 5 times each.
That will be your starting point when it comes to your MICO-factor. From this point you need to continue to practise the MICO-factor games to try to increase your MICO-factor decimal by decimal.
If you visit the Roadmap page and scroll down to the part about MICO-factor, you will see which games you’ve played 5 times, and which games you still need to play.
On your profile page you will also see this image which will lead you to a statistics page for your MICO-factor, where you can see your stats over time. Month my month, year by year.
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The ABC Stars game is intended to be used for new darts players at JDC Academies as an introduction to throwing darts.
The ABC Stars can be used either with a Winmau Equaliser dartboard or used with a normal dartboard. Select which board you use before starting the game.
There are three different parts of this game:
9 darts – try to hit three different colors on the dartboard
3 different colors = 5 bonus points.
Hit a red, green and either black or white to get the max points.
21+ = 3 stars
10 – 20 = 2 stars
0 – 9 = 1 star
Max score = 30
9 darts at the bullseye.
28+ = 3 stars
18 – 27 = 2 stars
0 – 17 = 1 star
Max score = 90
How many darts does it take you to score 180 points or more.
Just click the number buttons to expand the popup to select if it was a Single, Double or Treble hit.
0 – 9 = 3 stars
10 – 15 = 2 stars
16+ = 1 star
Minimum score = 3.
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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!
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.
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!
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 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 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.
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 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.
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
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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?
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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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.
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:
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.
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:
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.
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
With your current level figured out and in mind, we can continue to the next step.
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.
Up to average 35 -> Novice
35 to 60 -> Intermediate
60 to 80 -> Advanced
80 to 100 -> Expert
100 and above -> Professional
Up to 300 -> Novice
300 to 700 -> Intermediate
700 to 1000 -> Advanced
1000 to 1250 -> Expert
1250 and above -> Professional
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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
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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?
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”!
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.
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.
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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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.”
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.
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.
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
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.
Anders
Founder Of GoDartsPro
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
How to make your darts training more effective
Make your darts training more challenging
Bridge the gap between practice and match
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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.
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!
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.
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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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.
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!
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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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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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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!
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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… ;)).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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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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!
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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.
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 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.
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+ |
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.
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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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.
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:
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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).
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.
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.
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57
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Start with the numbers 7 and 3 in the end of both rows, |
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.
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Think of the smaller numbers on the first row with a 1 before them when you calculate, |
Here’s another example:
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Calculate like we did in the previous example and do 14-9 = 5. |
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.
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7 – 4 = 3 and 10-3 = 7. Remember we need to add the 1 for the next number 8 as 8+1 = 9: |
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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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.
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
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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:
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ADVANCED LEVEL
3 hits = move to next number INTERMEDIATE LEVEL
2/3 hits = move to next number BEGINNER LEVEL
1-3 hits = move to next 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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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…
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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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.
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.
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?
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.
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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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.
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.
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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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?
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!
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!
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201 ChallengeIn this game you have 12 darts to finish the current score, starting with 201. |
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Checkout ChallengeThe same logic as above, but in this game you start at 21 and need to finish the score with 3 darts. |
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Five CheckoutsYou’ve got five random checkouts to unlock and finish within three darts each. |
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Catch 40Try to take the outs 61-100 in 2 to 6 darts. |
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.
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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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
Text: Mikko Laiho (RIP)
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
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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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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)
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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.
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.
Read more about how to learn darts maths
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.
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 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
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.
Article with good games for beginners
Games to be played for fun
Games that will boost your game play
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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.
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…
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.
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’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
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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!
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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.
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121Finish the checkout within 9 darts. |
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GrindoutGrindout is a really tough game but also a very good one. |
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FrustrationFrustration is also a very tough game used by many professional darts players on a regular basis. |
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Shooting GalleryA great MICO-factor game similar to 121 but with a twist. |
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Checkout ChallengeStart 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. |
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Catch 40Try to take the out (61-100) in 2 to 6 darts. |
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Switching DoublesYour targets are the important doubles to master. |
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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.
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Section 5In 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. |
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InsiderYou 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. |
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2121 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! |
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Lockdown ChallengeThe 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. |
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Points Around The World (PAW)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. |
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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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.
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.
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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. |
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In this game, your targets are the important doubles to master. Throw one dart on each double and track your hits. The doubles are: |
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Setting up a list of great doubles games without “Doubles Lock” would be incomplete. |
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This is not a doubles-only game, but a fun all-over-the-board game, which strengthens your focus. |
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You start with the score 420 and your goal is to bring it down to or below zero. 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?! |
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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. |
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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 :
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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”.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Numerous studies tell that any kind of accuracy practice should be done with 100% concentration, and darts isn’t an exception. So how would be the best way to keep your focus?
Timing is everything in darts, but also in practice. An average match lasts approximately 25-35 minutes, and if you transfer that to solo-training that would be somewhere of region of 20 minutes.
So practise fully focused for about 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.
I’d say there’s absolutely no need to go ever over three hours per day in solo practice – but if you’ve just begun to play or you’re very young you might exceed even that time to time.
The older you get the more attention you should be giving to your 100% fully focused training.
Your body and your mind needs rest
After 3-4 days of intense practice, you also need to stay away from darts completely for a whole day.
The day away from darts can do magic for your inspiration and hunger to practice fully focused again.
That can be really tough since we’re all passionate about darts and eager to improve.
Use the games on GoDartsPro to keep your focus!
Enjoy your darts!
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Now you can challenge yourself, your friends and all other members in different challenges on GoDartsPro.
We start with the game ‘100 darts @ 20’ and the challenge runs through August. Attend as many times as you want and your highest score will be your contribution to the challenge.
The scores are saved for each throw so if you abort and leave the game before finishing it, your challenge score will be the score when you left the game. Next time you start the game from the challenge your current session will be resumed and you can continue from where you left.
There will be more challenges with different games and rules soon so this is just a small summer start.
Each challenge will have its own rules and settings. Some will be restricted to one try per challenge and others will accept as many tries as you want.
GoDartsPro reserves the right to remove/hide scores that are most likely entered to cheat and the member will be contacted.
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There are a lot of aspects that makes any darts training drill a great game.
It needs to be:
* Challenging
* Inspiring
* Fun
* Simulating pressure
* Right level for the player
Our new doubles practice game, Doubles Lock, has it all.
You can compete with yourself on many levels in this game:
1) Finish the game – it’s quite a task itself
2) As quick as possible – play the clock
3) Score as much as possible
4) Least amount of darts used
Throw three darts at the same double and your first target double 20.
Each target needs at least one hit to move on to next target double 19. As a result if you miss the 19’s – you are back on hitting the 20’s.
When you hit the target double twice or thrice you lock that number for further play – you don’t need to go back any further.
Every time you manage to hit more than one target double, you get points. 2 hits means 50 points, three hits 100 points.
EXAMPLE:
You hit Double 20 twice, now you get 50 points and it becomes locked and your new starting-base is Double 19.
When you then continue and hit Doubles 19, 18 and 17 once each the pressure becomes massive on Double 16.
If you miss Double 16 with all three darts you’re back at your base which now is Double 19 because you locked Double 20.
But, if you instead hit Double 16 with all 3 darts you score 100 points and 16 is now your new base!
Play the game until Double 1 is done and dusted.
Depending on your player level this game will normally take 20-60 minutes to finish and it doesn’t suit for beginners.
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This must be natural to you already, but never underestimate the power of repetition. The business end of the match is always doubles.
Your aim is to hit three double ones before moving on to double two. Depending on your level, you can choose to use either six, nine or twelve darts achieving this.
So if you’re an advanced player, you can use six darts only.
If you’re an average player – like 85% of us – please use nine darts for each number.
If you’ve begun your darts career not so long ago, please don’t hesitate to use twelve darts to do this.
Remember that you can only move on hitting each double three times.
The game should be doable in approx. 45-60 minutes at each level.
It is a simple and very straight forward game and it can make wonders to your doubling skills.
Enjoy your practice!
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Making traditional classic games to darts games are always fun, and most of us know about or have played Tic-Tac-Toe in different variations. The rules are therefore easy to grasp which makes the game easy to use and you can focus on just throwing darts. The games has been requested a few times but the coach Antonis Pappas at the GameOn darts club in Athens convinced me to finally add the game. Thanks!
The game logic is easy, you will try to get three in a row (vertical, horizontal or diagonal) on the playfield.
To get your marks in this game you have to finish the checkout/score/treble/double shown in the boxes of the playfield. So before you start the game you have to decide the difficult level for the game or individually.
Random checkouts between 81-120. Finish on a double.
Random trebles 1-20.
Random checkouts between 41-80. Finish on a double.
Random scores between 61-120.
Random doubles 1-20 and BULL.
Random scores between 21-60.
Random numbers 1-20.
If you have a Scolia to autotrack the darts you just have to start the game and throw the darts. But you can also play the game manually by pressing the boxes in the gamefield when you hit the target. You can only get 1 mark per throw (three darts)!
If you manage to hit the target with your first or second dart, but would like to aim for a better brick in the game you can continue to throw but if you miss the target you’re aiming for you also lost the opportunity to get the first mark. For example lets say you have selected Scores as your level, and have 60, 80 and 100 as three of the scores in your playfield. If you then hit the Treble 20 with your first dart you can decide to stop and get the mark in the box for the score 60, or continue to aim for 80 or 100 with the rest of the darts. But if you fail and for example hit Single 5 + Single 1 with your remaining dart you will not get a mark at the score 60.
Every now and then I like to add a game from the big catalogue of games Mikko Laiho created, while he was working as a professional darts coach. Some games are picked from the book “More about darts” (“Enemmän dartsista”) he wrote about darts training, and some from our many hundreds of emails discussing the development of GoDartsPro. The new game “9 Darts Out” is from one of our emails.
Mikko always said “Playing only 501’s isn’t really that good of a practice”. Naturally, you need to be able to finish a leg of 501 in a certain amount of darts, all depending on your level. But the fact is that the more you miss and the more you fail to finish the leg with 20 darts the less you believe in yourself, and the dreaded ‘Scar-tissue’ takes its scary place.
Instead he advocated for dedicated training games where you have a clear focus and goal, and you work on this goal by playing the game repeatedly. Therefore he created many different, short and effective training games while coaching players.
One of the games he suggested for this was the “9 darts out” game.
You have 9 darts and 3 lives (optional) to finish the current out. It starts at 121 (optional), and if you manage to finish the current out the next out will be increased by one. If you don’t finish the current out, you will lose a life and you play until you’re down to 0 lives.
If you finish the out in 6 darts you will get 1 extra life!
If you finish the out in 3 darts you will get 3 extra lives!
As Mikko said: “Play as long as you can until all lives are gone. 501 is the last out, and if you get that in 9 darts we’ll call that a day.”
How far can you reach? Click the button below and find out today!
There are many finishing games already on GoDartsPro but there are a few aspects of this game that makes it very useful and fun. First of all, if you practise the end part of a leg of 501 more instead of playing full games of 501, you will improve faster. You will by repetition learn how to leave a good double after 3-6 darts, and learn the the fastest way to go from 121 and above to a finish.
If you are good, this game can take quite a while to finish! So make sure to take a break every 20-30 minutes or so, or come back to the game again later.
Sadly, Mikko Laiho passed away in 2019, but his legacy and great games lives on, on GoDartsPro!
Play the game a few times and see how far you can get! Get back to the game every now and then and see if you can better your best result.
The talented darts player, János Börzsei (Hungary – Scolia), reached out to me earlier with a request for a new game. He told me that the successful trainer in Hungary, Medárd Ziegenham, had a great routine that he wanted to see on GoDartsPro. We discussed different ways to create and add the game to GoDartsPro, with what options, and we’ve now launched it as: Medi’s 21
The game idea is around the board from 1-20 + Bull, and you pre-select in which order you need to hit the fields to score points. There are 12 different orders to select from, from the easiest where you only need to hit singles, to more difficult ones including trebles and doubles. This way the game can be used by all members, from beginners to professionals. You score 1 point for singles, 2 point for doubles, and 3 points for trebles.
But you always only score points when you hit the field of the current number, in the corresponding order you’ve pre-selected.
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Bonus-Bundle Option (BB)
If you manage to hit your pre-selected targets with all three darts you also get a bonus. The size of the bonus is based on the difficulty of the target fields. Use this option if you want to reward yourself when you’ve thrown three perfect darts. |
If you for example have pre-selected the field order to be Treble-Single-Double, and hit the Single with your first dart you score no points for that dart. With the 2nd dart you have to hit the Single to score 1 point. With your 3rd dart you need to hit the Double to score 2 points. So for all numbers around the board, you need to aim each dart at the corresponding order you’ve pre-selected, in this case – Treble-Single-Double.
This is a great game in many ways. The fact that you can start out with the easiest option, Single-Single-Single, and then move on to more difficult ones, like Treble-Treble-Double, when you’ve improved makes it very versatile. But one of the most important aspects is that the game doesn’t promote any bad throws, meaning if you’ve selected the option Single-Single-Single, and instead hit a treble you score nothing. If you are a beginner playing 501’s you probably hit many 12’s and 18’s when aiming for treble 20. Sometimes even hit a random Treble 18 to score 54 with one dart. That might feel good and do good for your scoring in that leg, but still, since you were aiming for treble 20 it wasn’t a good throw and doesn’t reflect your accuracy.
That’s why I think games like Medi’s 21 are especially useful because only the accurate throws are rewarded with points. Also I wanted to add the Bonus-Bull option which rewards you when do a perfect throw with your three darts.
Mikko Laiho came up with this game years ago, and he told me he came up with it while he worked as a professional coach at Winmau. He also called it “15 Minutes Killer Practise Routine” (typical Mikko-name for a game… 🙂 ).
The game idea and concept is similar to “Mikko’s Megatrain” and Marko Kantele’s game “Two Thirds”, mixing both hitting the big numbers and doubles, and to finish a target you need to reach a certain goal/score.
The game objective is simple, but the game isn’t. The Four 4 game is not a game for beginners even if you use the Burn-dart-rule. There are many other good games on GoDartsPro, so if you are a beginner, play these games a few times more before you try Four 4.
In the game For 4, you need to score 4 points at the current target (for example 1 treble and 1 single). You will be aming for the big numbers but also the most important doubles + bull. When you’re up against a big number you have to get 4 points in one throw (3 darts) with for example 1 treble + 1 single.
When you’re throwing for a double (including bullseye) you can use as many darts as you need to get 4 hits (on bull it is bullseye only = red part).
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To make every dart count in the game, we’ve added the ‘Burn-Dart-Rule’ known from other games on GoDartsPro. With this mode, if you can not finish the target with your last dart it is still important to try to hit the current target. If you manage get four points (or 4 hits at double) with your last dart + your following 1 or 2 darts, it counts as finished. |
For example, your target is 20 and you hit S5 + S1 with your first two darts and can not reach 4 points with your last dart. With the burn-dart-rule, the last dart is still important. Let’s say you hit T20 with your last dart, you now have 3 hits saved for next throw to be used with your first 2 darts. If you hit 1 dart in 20 with your first 2 darts you now have finished the target.
This game is another great game by Mikko Laiho that he used while coaching many great players. The game logic that you have to continue to throw at the same target until you finish it, gives you the so necessary repetitive training. With the Burn-dart-rule, the game is slightly easier to finish, and when you get a treble with your last dart, you will feel pressure to hit the target with at least one dart with the following two darts. That adds upp pressure which we all know by now is very important for good darts training.
All darts players knows that it is very important to put in hours of dedicated checkout training to be able to finish the leg when your opponent is on a finish. These training hours can be frustrating and tiresome if you don’t have any fun finishing games in your pocket. That’s why GoDartsPro regularly launch different finishing games or pure doubles games, to give you different darts training games that will inspire you to practise a few extra hours. The Matchplay Checkouts is a new fun finishing game you should start to play today!
Every week I get messages from members suggesting either new games they’ve come up with themeselves, requesting games they’ve heard pro players play or games a darts coach suggested them to use. In 2024 I got several messages from members that had been coached by SWR Darts Coaching and used some of the game ideas suggested there. One of them was the Matchplay Checkouts. So I reached out to the coach Shaun Rogers at SWR Darts Coaching and started to discuss a way to develop the game for GoDartsPro! Shaun has been a member on GoDartsPro since 2018 and we thought it was a great idea to let all the members on GoDartsPro play and use the game for their training.
The game idea is to play different checkouts in a leg format against a virtual opponent. If you finish the checkout you win a leg but if you don’t the opponent wins the leg. And wrapped in to a Matchplay format with Round 1, Round 2, Quarter Final, Semi Final and lastly the big Final!
In the standard game option Long Format you’re up against the checkout 40 in Round 1, and you need to finish it in 3 darts in the best of 19 legs (first to 10 legs). Then it continues with Round 2 with Checkout 80 in 3 darts best of 21. For the Quarter Final it is surely getting harder since you need to finish the Checkout 100 in 3 darts to win a leg (best of 31). If you manage to reach the Semi-Final you’ve got the Checkout 120 to finish in 3 darts, in best of 33 legs format.
It you’re good enough to reach the big Final you’re up against the Checkout 170, but this time you have 6 darts to finish the leg, in best of 35 legs.
It is a quite long game format so we’ve divided it up in the different rounds. So when you finish a round, it is time for a break or even for the day, to come back when you’ve rested and got 100% focus for the task ahead. We also added a Medium format to give you a bit quicker game format.
It is a really great game that will put you under pressure in a match-like scenario. After we’ve been testing the game several times we started to get a bit tired of the checkouts 40,80,100 etc., so we felt the need to also add an option to get random checkouts in a range close to the original checkout. So for each round you will get a random checkout to finish.
Check out the game walkthrough on YouTube!
Thanks Shaun at SWR Darts Coaching for a great game and for letting us develop and publish it for the GoDartsPro members. They’re also at Facebook, so click here and give them a follow!
The Finnish player Marko Kantele invented this game years back which he used for his training, and the main idea with the game was that “two out of three is enough”. Last year a few of GoDartsPro members requested this game and at the WDF World Masters in Budapest in October I discussed the game with Marko.
Both Marko Kantele and my late colleague Mikko Laiho (both Finnish and friends playing darts together years back) were strong believers that players who hit the most 140’s more often wins the game. The player with most 180’s wont necessary be the player winning in the end. I remember my discussions with Mikko about this and he had compared stats from many games (thousands of games according to him) that also supported this theory.
The original game (Expert mode) consists of both scoring and doubles phases. For the scoring phase hitting two big trebles and a big single is enough and for the doubles phase hitting two doubles using three darts is also enough. You start with the scoring phase and every second throw will be towards doubles of different kinds.
The Expert mode is very tough since you for the scoring phase need to hit at least 131 and for the Intermediate mode, the score to reach is 95.
To make the game usable for more players we also added a “Intermediate level” and an option to use the “Burn-dart-rule” (introduced in Mikko’s Megatrain with similar approach).
If you for example would hit Treble 5 and Single 1 in the scoring phase, you can not reach the requested score with your last dart, which would make the last dart useless. For the games on GoDartsPro we strongly believe that it is important to always practise in a way that also the last dart is very important (which it often is in a tight game of 501). For this reason we also introduce the “Burn-dart-rule” in this game.
If your first 2 darts missed the big trebles, make sure to refocus with your last dart. The score you hit with your last dart will also be used together with the first 2 darts of your next throw, thanks to the burn-dart-rule.
So let’s say you hit Treble 5, Single 1 and Treble 20 with your first three darts. The score 60 with your last dart will be saved for next throw. For your next throw you hit Treble 19, Single 19 and Single 7. This throw will not reach the limit on its own.
But since you got the score 60 from the burn-dart-rule, adding this with the first two darts of your new throw gives you:
60 + 57 + 20 = 137
and you managed to reach the limit.
The burn-dart-rule is also applied on the doubles phase so if you hit a double with your last dart, it will count together with the following two darts in your next throw. So always focus 100% with your last dart!
There are 3 different ways available to track the darts in the game. First if you have a Scolia device, the darts will of course be automatically tracked for you.
If you don’t own a Scolia-device (yet!), you can choose if you want to track the details for each dart or the “Simplified registration of the throws”. To make use of the “Burn-dart-rule” the game need to know the score for each dart but if you just want to play the game and don’t care about the detailed stats, you can use the simplified way and just tell the game if you hit or miss the current score/target.
This is also a very good game that will need your full focus. Since you both need to be able to score well and hit the important doubles, you will practise the most important parts of the game of 501.
The game will put you under pressure but you will not be punished if you miss. So take your time, focus on each throw and each dart and finish the game bit by bit. This is not a game for beginners and even the Intermediate mode can be challenging, even with the burn-dart-rule.
Try it out today and see if you like the game and if it is a game for you to add to your weekly training!
The so popular JDC Challenge game has been undergoing some changes lately. The new GOLD level has been added and the interface has got a face-lift. Now we’re also introducing the in-game periodical stats for all premium members. We’ll explain the details and how you should use this for your daily darts practice.
Most of you probably know about the JDC Challenge game already, but if you’re completely new to this, here’s a short story. The Junior Darts Corporation (JDC) was founded by Steve Brown, a former professional darts player within the PDC. He invented the game to add a grading feature for the players at the JDC Academies. Since GoDartsPro partnered up with JDC back in 2018, the gradings are done weekly at the academies all over the world through the GoDartsPro platform.
Since the game is such a good game and such good fun to play, it has been the most popular game since it was launched first time back in 2017. The game has three parts:
| Shanghai 10-15 | Three darts on each number |
| Doubles 1-20+BULL | One dart on each double |
| Shanghai 15-20 | Three darts on each number |
The maximum score is 3380, but that has never been achieved. The great GoDartsPro member Alan Soutar streamed a session of the game during Covid lockdown, when we arranged the JDC Virtual, and scored 2309, and therefore got the official world record for the game. That’s a tough score to beat!
For a JDC player to grade up they need to have played at least 6 out of 8 weeks in a Season.
With the latest update we now also show the monthly average stats for the premium player when the game is started one year back. This to make it more useful and challenging to play. If you reach for example the RED level one month, you don’t want to go down to BLUE the next month.
Hey, I’m not a JDC player, what does the levels mean for me and how should I look at my stats?
I went to the source, and asked the father of the game, Steve Brown, and he replied:
“It’s always hard to categorize but to give you and idea, you could look at the levels like this:
White 0-149 = Improver
Purple 150-299 = Novice
Yellow 300-449 = Local League player
Green 450-599 = Super League player
Blue 600-699 = County player
Red 700-849 = Challenge Tour Player
Black 850-1249 = Q-School Contender
GOLD 1250 and above = Pro player!”
That is, if your monthly average (with several games played) is above 850 it could be a good idea to register for Q-School next time! Good to know!
The best way to use this game as a tool for training is to play the game regularly to build up honest statistics to measure your current level. Make sure to only play the game when you’ve done a proper warm-up and are fully focused for the task to play a session of the game. Just because it is used by the junior players, doesn’t make it an easy game! Since the 2nd part of the game is doubles, and you only get 1 dart at each double, it is crucial that you are fully warmed-up and are able to focus on every dart.
When you’ve at least played 10 sessions a month and got your average level, you’ve got a target for next month. Now practise hard and try to beat the previous months average! At least try to lower your average but if you do, “Darts is not a sprint, it is a MARATHON!”.
Would you like to join a JDC Academy or are you planning to start a JDC Academy in your town?
Visit juniordarts.com or contact:
Sean Casey-Poole Director of Operations JDC.
sean(a)juniordarts.com
This new game has a few things that makes up a good game:
A fun, quick game with a clear task that will also put you under pressure for the final throw. All key aspects when it comes to a good training routine.
Members often requests short effective game they can play over and over again to try to beat their previous best. One problem with games that requires a long time to finish is that if you feel you’re not able to reach a top score or even your normal average, it is easy to start losing focus. This often leads to small changes in your throw. You might start throwing faster or harder or not following through as you normally do. These small changes can easily lead to bad habits which can cause problem for you in the long run. So try out a few shorter games today, and why not Jackpot!
The game rules for Jackpot are very easy. You have 5 throws (15 darts) to try to score as much as possible and build up a big Jackpot-score. Then you have 1 throw (3 darts) to try to hit bullseye. If you hit bullseye (50) your Jackpot-score is doubled. If you hit the outer bull (25) you keep your Jackpot-score but if you fail to hit 50 or 25, your Jackpot-score is cut in half.
You can vary this game by selecting a different end-target, and pick any double for your last throw. Same thing here, if you hit the double the Jackpot-score will be doubled. If you hit the single you keep your Jackpot-score and if you miss your Jackpot-score is cut in half.
With this game you’ll be working hard to get a decent score but it all will be down to the wire for the last throw when you’re forced to hit the bullseye (or selected double) to double the score.
Since it is a short game, even if your jackpot-score isn’t that good when it is down to the final throw, or if you failed to hit the 50/25 and your jackpot-score is cut in half, you will nevertheless feel: One more time
This is also one of the benefits with this game!
The ability to score is of course crucial in the game of 501 so the majority of training for most members is about scoring.
Spending hours trying to score as much as possible is tiresome especially if you’re not getting any feedback or statistics to motivate you to continue. It is also very important for GoDartsPro to provide games suitable for all levels of players, beginners to pro’s, where everyone can get a score to work on.
That’s why we felt there’s a need for a game like Streak!
Note! The game is pre-launched for active Enduro Challenge players only!
In the Streak game you have 20 throws (60 darts) so It is a quite short game (about 5-6 minutes) which makes it easier to stay focused during the whole game. A shorter game with different visible scores/goals to try to reach leaves you more often with the feeling of: Just one more time…
which leads to more training! 🙂
The aim of the game is to get as good 5-throws-streak score as possible. This to give you an idea of your peak performance ability when you get your throws right.
In the start of the game you will see the leaderboard for the best streaks the past 30 days from other members. This to give something to work hard for to try to reach.
During the game you throw and track 20 throws and the game will update the 5-best-streak scores in the interface. Even though if you get a bad throw after a good streak, don’t give up! If you manage to get the last throws really good you still might improve your sessions best streak score. So continue during the 20 throws and try to stay focused no matter what.
We all know it is so easy to get a few stray darts which can ruin any score and any game. That’s why we also show an alternative streak score which shows your best streak when the 10% worst throws (2 worst throws) have been removed. This also to give you some inspiration to try to stay focused and to avoid those stray darts in your next game session. Those small indications can be very valuable to keep in mind and work hard for.
So when you see a big gap between your real streak score and your alternative score, you know that it is within your reach if you only can lose those stray throws.
When you’ve finished a game session you can review your stats by clicking the red “Your stats” button to the right of the game. There you’ll see your best sessions and a history log where you also see the percentage stats for different scoring segments.
Use the game and work hard on your scoring abilities and you’ll see your stats improve.
The well known Winmau player Danny Noppert recently visited the Winmau HQ and explained one of the training routines he usually plays to prepare for a tournament. Based on this routine, we added options to make it suitable for more players, and created a new game we call: Finish & Lock!
The game is similar to the popular game Doubles Lock that was one of the first games added on GoDartsPro, but this game is not just about hitting doubles.
The game logic is that you start on Double 20 but you need to finish it in a 501-style. That is, if you miss Double 20 and hit Single 20 instead, you now have the score 20 to finish and will therefore go for Double 10 with your next dart. If you then hit Double 10, you’re back with your last dart on Double 20 and try to hit it this time. Technically you have a chance to finish the Double three times in one throw (3 darts in the current double).
If you manage to finish the current Double in any way (directly or by continuing finishing what score is left) you’ll drop down to the next even double. So you will throw at the doubles: 20, 18, 16, 14, 12, 10, 8, 4 and 2. The game wraps it up with a go at Double 1.
The game logic is similar to Doubles Lock here, that if you fail to finish the current double, you need to restart at Double 20 again. If you bust your score with darts left you’ve failed to finish the double and need to get your darts and prepare for next throw.
Just as in Doubles Lock, you have a chance to lock a double to avoid getting back all the way to Double 20 again. Danny usually plays this game with the rule needing three hits at the current double to lock it. To make the game useful for more levels of players, we added the option to choose to play the game with 3, 2 and 1 finish to lock the double. This way you start using the game earlier in your career and change option as you improve. Start with the easiest option and play the game a few times. When you’re getting comfortable finishing the game under 30 minutes or so, start using the Intermediate mode and work your way to Expert mode.
This is another very useful and fun game to play on a regular basis. Mastering finishes from 40 and below will really improve your game and with this game you will do this with a good amount of pressure added.
Imaging the pressure you will feel if you managed to go down from Double 20 to Double 1 without any doubles locked on the way!
The newly signed Winmau player Jules Van Dongen has been an active member on GoDartsPro for quite a while and when he visited the Winmau HQ in December they talked about his darts training and he said:
“GoDartsPro – I use pretty much all the excercises and games they have on there, trying to get high up on the challenges leaderboards.”
The one routine he was missing was the game we now launch as: Stars & Stripes
The game is a finishing game where four of the most important doubles are used repeatedly: D20, D18, D16 and D12. You need to finish the doubles as you would in a game of 501, so if you miss D20 and hit S20 you have the score 20 left to try to finish with your last two darts. When you finish an out you get one point but if you fail to finish you loose one point and you try to reach 10 points for each out. If you nail the double and got darts left you’ll try to finish the current out once more. That means you could finish 3 doubles in one throw (3 darts). Jules practise this game either alone or with a friend and says:
“Playing the game with a friend can be quite competitive but it can drag on if you’re not focused and not playing well.”
It is always fun to add games suggested by great players they’ve been using previously to get them where they are today. But the games the pro’s are using can be too tough and challenging for most of the members so we always try to find options and features to make the games more fun, suitable for more players, and to use to advance as they improve.
Therefore we’ve added different options and the stars feature where you can try to unlock all the 3 stars by doing:
2 finishes in 1 throw (3 darts)
3 finishes in 1 throw (3 darts)
6 finishes in 2 throws (6 darts)
Jules is playing the routine until he reach 10 points for each out but this could take hours for many players so we added the option 5 and 3 as well. If you play this game for the first time, set the duration to 3 while trying the game.
The default option is to play the game with the outs in consecutive order. That means if your game duration is set to 10 you need to finish the double 20, 10 times until you move on to next. This can be tiresome, and it is easy to lose focus if you’re not good enough, so we added the option to alter the doubles 20, 18, 16 and 12 until you reach enough hits/points.
With the game play set to Consecutive order you have three options for when you miss an out:
* One step back
* Stay on target
* One step back but lock finished double
The first two are quite easy to understand but the third means that once you’ve finished all the D20’s, this row/stripe is locked so even if you fail to finish the first D18, you continue throwing for D18. The options “Stay on target” and “One step back but lock finished double” makes the game a bit easier to finish.
This is a great game since you repeatedly working on finishing the most common doubles you’re facing in a game of 501. The game is also challenging enough and with the different options and the gamification to try to unlock the stars, I think it is a fun game to use over and over again. Can you unlock all 3 stars? Try the game and share your success on social media!
I often get questions from members asking what kind of games the pro’s are playing when they’re training. For Simon Whitlock it is Double Doubles around the board. This is a darts training game for more advanced players so if you’re relatively new to darts there are other more suitable games for you here.
There are many ways to practise doubles in darts. Either as part of a finishing score or pure doubles games where you only focus on hitting the current double one or several times. It is always good to vary your training and play both types a lot to both get the finishing training where you learn all the common checkouts and to build confidence and muscle memory aiming for the same double several times. It is originally a very tough game, and to make it fun and useful for more players I felt I needed to add some options for it:
3 darts – 2 doubles
6 darts – 2×2 doubles (finished in pairs)
9 darts – 2×2 doubles (finished in pairs)
12 darts – 2×2 doubles (finished in pairs)
So therefore, in the Double Doubles game on GoDartsPro, you can choose if you want to use 3, 6, 9 or 12 darts to play this game.
With the 3 darts option you close the current double by hitting it twice to move on to the next. From 1 to 20.
If you choose the 6,9 or 12 darts option the doubles needs to be hit twice and closed in pairs.
If you go with the standard option 6 darts, you therefore need to hit double 1 twice before you go for double 2 and hit that twice as well. All within 6 darts. This is can be really tough so make sure you are fully focused and have time for an intense training session.
The new darts training game, the ”Finishing Star”, is a fun and challenging mix of different games available on GoDartsPro. You’ll recognize the 3 different outs to practise multiple times during from Crown Judgement. You’ll also probably be familiar with the concept that you get points for scoring but also for aiming for a double or even leave a double, from games like Hubbe and Ton+. With great ideas and features from exisiting games it is possible to create a new fun and inspiring game. That’s how ”Finishing star” came about.
On GoDartsPro there are several ways to practise finishing and pure doubles-routines.
For players in their beginning of their darts career it sure can be difficult and daunting to try to hit the desired double. Yet it is important to practise them and to be able to set up a great checkout to maximize the chances to hit the double with your next throw. So with this game you’ll get points for leaving a double, throwing at a double and of course hitting the double to get used to always try to leave a good double if you can’t finish the score with your last dart.
For this game you have five different levels to choose from plus an option to customize the session with your own scores to finish. The options and their scores to finish are:
| Rookie | 41 – 61 – 81 |
| Novice | 61 – 81 – 101 |
| Intermediate | 81 – 101 – 121 |
| Advanced | 101 – 121 – 141 |
| Expert | 121 – 141 – 161 |
| Custom | ? – ? – ? |
The scores will loop and repeated ten times each and you always have 3 darts to finish each score, that is 90 darts in total for this game = about 10 minutes session. By repeating the scores like this for a proper training session you will better memorize the different ways to checkout the scores within three darts. And remember, if you got one dart left and you’re not on a double, focus 100% to hit a score to leave a good double. As always with a good practice game – every dart counts!
The points you get when you finish an out will increase for the two higher outs as well as throwing for a double for the highest out, since these are harder to get.
Another gamification feature for this game is to try to collect the stars.
There are three different stars to collect and you’ll get them by:
Finish at least one of each different outs
Finish 3 outs in a row
Finish 5 outs or more
Personally I think this is a great game for many reasons. There are different options to choose from to better suit more players current levels. The repetitive part of the outs are also an important part that will do your darts game good. The rewarding logic for more things than just hitting the target double will also make it useful for more players. If you’re a beginner and you can’t score anything in a game, you’ll probably lose focus and interest pretty soon.
And last but not least, the gamification part with collecting the stars adds another dimension to the game.
Can you collect them all?
Enjoy your darts!
/Anders
There’s a good reason why there are so many training games about finishing – If you can’t finish a leg it doesn’t matter how good scorer you are. You need to have the confidence when it comes to finishing and you’ll get the confidence by regularly play good finishing games. Then you’ll get the ”I can do this – I’ve done it thousands of times before” feeling when you’ve got one dart left to win the game! Play Finishing Range and make it count!
Over the years I’ve got many requests for different variations of finishing games.
Some players want to practise outs between 61-81 using 3 darts and some want to use 9 darts and work from 170-300. There are already of great finishing games on GoDartsPro such as:
Shooting Gallery, Checkout Randomizer, Catch 40, Checkout Challenge, Ton +, 121, Five Checkouts etc.
But requests are still coming so I thought I’d create a game (or tool if you like) to customize your own finishing routine and came up with the Finishing Range.
You can also select the maximum duration for the game. Tryout the different options and find out what is best suitable for you.
You can also add it to your favourite Playlist with the options predefined as you want.
When you’ve finished a session, the settings will be stored as default for your next session.
Enjoy your darts and make it count!
It is a good thing to vary the intensity and lengths of your training sessions and not just play the same games you feel confident to finish or score well at. Luckily we’ve got some really demanding and tough games to challenge yourself every now and then!
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Mikko’s Megatrain
Mikko Laihos idea about this game was to create a demanding and hard game for intermediate to advanced players. |
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Grindout
Try to take the out from 81 in 2 to 6 darts (the game got different options for different levels). |
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Crown Judgement
This is our new flagship, the Crown Judgement! You can play this game only once a month, so you better get your focus right before starting this game. |
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Five Checkouts
The well know PDC player Kim Huybrechts was kind enough to send me a list of the games he’s been playing the past 10-15 years or so. The Five Checkouts was one of them and I added a few twists to the game to make it more fun and challenging. |
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Frustration
Hit minimum score with first 2 darts only scoring at S20 and T20. Then hit the current double to finish. From double 20 down to ending number. Choose the minimum score, ending number, number of scores to finish a number and if you want continuous/loop order. |
Finding different ways to practice and prepare for 501 games can be really inspiring. The new 501 O’Clock combines legs of 501 with numbers around the clock (board) in sections of 5. The game has many different options and we’ll go through all the details here.
Before you start the game you got a number of options for the training session.
Try out the different options to sharpen your skills and to stay motivated to practice another session.
You first decide the length of your session by selecting either a quick game with only one section around the board or if you want a longer sessions with more legs and numbers around the board. There are 5 different options here and you can also check the reverse button to start at 20 for the clock section.
This option makes the 501 legs a bit trickier. Select your minimum score for the 501 legs and choose between 45, 60, 100 or 101.
Scores under the limit doesn’t count in the 501 leg so you really need to focus on your scoring here.
To make every dart count there’s also an option to save score with bull. If your first two darts makes it impossible to reach the set score limit you can use your 3rd dart at bull to try to save the score. There are 4 options here:
At least green bull = 25p – If you hit green/red bull you score 25 or 50 points for this throw.
Need red bull = 50p – You can only save the score by hitting the red bull which gives you 50 points.
Easy – At least Green bull = 100% score – With this option you get the combined score from all 3 darts if you hit green/red bull.
Easy – Need red bull = 100% score – Same as above but you need to hit the red bull to score.
Decide if you only are allowed to score on the numbers 20, 19, 18, 17 or 16. If you got a Scolia device attached you also got the option to use 20, 19 and 18 together to score.
If you select any of these numbers in combination with Save score with bull you will only get scores from this number + bull.
Select if you’re going for Doubles, Trebles, Singles, or any field in the Clock part of the game.
Once you’ve selected your settings for the training session you face a leg of 501.
When you’ve finished the leg the game switches to a phase of 5 numbers around the clock.
Let’s say you’ve selected the option 1-20+Bull and Doubles for the Clock section.
You now need to hit the doubles from 1-5. Once this is done you’re back to a leg of 501.
The game continues like this and ends with a bullseye to finish the game.
By combining a number of 501 legs with doubles around the clock for example, gives you a great varied training session.
You really need to stay focused during the whole game and even if you manage to finish a leg of 501 with few darts you still need to hit those doubles in the next phase of the game.
By adding all these options you can vary your training sessions and find your favourite.
This game never gets boring and it is a great warming up routine for you to use before your next match.
The game was suggested by the great Swedish player Roland Lenngren (Rolle_L).
Thank you for a great game!
GAME ON!
Size really matters – at least when it comes to your ability to group the darts.
If you’re able to group your darts on a smaller area of the board, you’re more likely to hit the target you’re aiming at.
The new technology that Scolia adds to the game of darts, where the exact millimeter on the board is registered for each dart hit, adds a whole new dimension to darts training and darts coaching. Being able to track the positions and angles of each dart you throw, opens up new ways to analyze your stats and approach actions to improve.
Check out our presentation in Youtube for this new feature!
When you throw the darts we store the positions on the board for each dart.
After 3 darts we’re able to calculate an area using the positions of the darts as a hit area.
As long as your following darts land inside that area, your hit area remains the same.
But as soon as one dart is positioned outside, the hit area grows.
When the game session is finished and all darts are thrown, we’re able to show the hit area and also calculate the size of it, showing your hit area size in square centimeters.
What is the smallest area that you can throw 100 darts in? Test your grouping abilities today!
This is all explained and showed in the Youtube presentation for the hit area concept.
This new feature can be good for your training in many ways. First of all, as inspiration and challenge, when trying to group your darts in a smaller and smaller area. Knowing your smallest area so far, will give you a goal to work hard for, trying to shrink the hit area, millimeter by millimeter.
By selecting different targets on the board and comparing your hit areas, you’ll see if you have any areas on the board where you have issues with trying to group your darts on a small area. With this knowledge, you can do some extra dedicated practice for these areas and sharpen your skills even more.
To inspire you to try out this new feature we’ve created a launch challenge with some great prizes to win.
A few members have asked me about the rules for this game and how to play the game on GoDartsPro.
I decided to record a short video to explain the details and show the gameplay of 10-20.
You need to finish the even doubles in use from 10 to 20 in the style of a -01 game. If you miss double 10 and hit single 10 instead with your first dart, you need to go for double 5 etc. If you fail to finish the double within three darts – enter 0 score.
If you hit it with your first or second dart, you’re free to score as much as you can with the remaining darts. You get 50 points for finishing the double, and all the scoring points as they are on the board (IE treble 20 = 60 p). So your max score for the one target is:
50 + 60 + 60 = 170 points.
(50 for double + T20 + T20)
Max score 6 time 170 = 1020.
Learning any darts practice game is essential. You need to know which level you’re achieving easily and which level that is your standard. Of course, best way to learn a new practice game is just playing it. Set a goal for your practice sessions and play it ten times to see what your best score will be for the session.
If you don’t practice darts every day repeat the 10-20 ten times the next time you practice day to see if you could break the records you made last time. You don’t want to grow bored with the game so after a few practice sessions like that, leave the game and practice some other game with the same intensity. When you after a few weeks or months go back to this game and try again.
If you have been practicing focused you will probably feel and see a change in the results.
You’re now learning your level in this game when you’ve done your self-assessment, which is vital to your road to pro.
Most of all, you need to feel good and having fun while practicing for the improvement to come easier.
So don’t forget to enjoy your darts!
The MasterClass concept was the reason why me and my late colleague Mikko Laiho started to work together back in 2018. He’d been working on the concept for quite a while, adding games and refining the structure for the levels. When he found GoDartsPro he thought it would be a perfect match.
One of the reasons Mikko came up with the idea of MasterClass, was that he thought there were too much focus on averages or short term statistics among many players. He wanted a training concept where you only focus on mastering one game at a time, and your only goal is to finish the current game to unlock the next.
I remember one of our many discussions about statistics after getting some requests of additional stats functions for some of the games. He said:
“Even if some players would like to compare and see if they play better on Wednesdays with smaller flights, doesn’t make it useful or make them a better player…”. He probably ended the sentence with “Perkele” too… 😉
The GoDartsPro MasterClass training concept now got three levels:
Competitor Level – 8 games
Challenger Level – 13 games
Contender Level – 19 games
How far can you go?
The third level of MasterClass – the Contender level – contains 19 games and you need to unlock them one by one.
Some games appear from the 2nd level but even harder to finish, but there’s also a bunch of new games for you to play. Games like:
HighScore x 8
Even Doubles
We Love Tops
91-100×2
301-12-11
Most of the games are quite demanding and will need 100% focus.
This is also the key part of the concept. Mikko wanted to create games that were challenging and would demand some effort before they were finished.
You might get frustrated the 20th time you didn’t manage to finish a game. Keep calm, stay focused, and don’t you dare to cheat to get to the next game!!!
He told me he wanted games that you would develop some kind of love/hate relation to.
Games that you hated not being able to finish but loved once they’re done and left behind.
So when you get stuck at a game, leave it for some days and practice some of the other games on GoDartsPro.
Then when you get back to the game you’ll make sure you got 100% focus to finish it. And Make It Count!
There’s a new challenging game that will improve your ability to checkout!
We call it the Checkout Challenge!
Practice finishing a checkout within 3 darts is one of the most important keys for winning games, and increasing your 501-average. Still, many players spend more hours throwing only at treble 20 believing it will make them win more games.
That’s why Checkout Challenge is added to GoDartsPro’s vast amount of games to choose from!
The game is a mix of Mikko Laiho’s old game “Check-out-climb” that is part of the MasterClass on GoDartsPro, with several different requests from members. There are many variants of the game out there used by many darts players around the world, but this is a variant that we really enjoyed when evaluating the routine at the board before and code was added.
Checkout Challenge is a great practice routine that will be usable for a wide variety of player levels that will inspire and challenge you to improve.
With the default settings you start at checkout 21 and you will be playing for 20 minutes. If you manage to finish the current checkout, the next checkout will be increased by 10. But if you fail to checkout, your next checkout will be reduced by 1.
So for example, if you’re at 21 and hit single 5 and finish with double 8, your next checkout will be 31.
If you can’t manage to finish 31 with 3 darts, your next checkout will be 30.
Your highest finish after 20 minutes will be your score for the round.
You can choose to play for 20, 30 or 45 minutes but also to play using 5 or 10 lives. That is, as soon as you miss a checkout you lose one life. The game is then ended when all lives are gone. You can also choose to start at the checkout 21, 61 or 91. 21 is the lowest checkout in the game so if you fail to checkout 21 your next checkout will still be 21.
After the game your finished checkouts will be shown as well as how many throws and darts used for the game.
The Checkout Challenge game is a great darts training game that when used on a regular basis will improve your ability to finish and thus, your ability to win games.
This game is also very useful to play before a real match or a big tournament as part of your warming-up routine.
Play the game with 5 or 10 lives and mix it with a few rounds of Dead Centre and PowerSwitch and you’ll be ready for show!
The game comes straight away with support for the Scolia device to autotrack your hits which makes the game even smoother, more focused and more fun to play.
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The Master-501 is the last part of a trilogy of darts practice game on GoDartsPro with a focus on 501’s. Use them together and sharpen your skills for your upcoming games and tournaments.
This game is invented by the GoDartsPro ambassador “Pascal Moonens” a.k.a “The Mental Power”.
Pascal contacted me a while ago with an idea of a new game and said:
Thanks to the 10-leg assessment you will get a good idea of your current level, and you will be able to start your training at that level.”
Will you become the MASTER?
Enjoy your training, good luck!
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At start you need to play the 10 assessment legs to find your current level. Then you will be placed into a structure of 27 virtual opponents.
There are 3 main levels – STARTER, MODERATE and EXPERIENCED. Each of these main levels have 9 sublevels.
You will be playing 501’s by best of 5, 9 and 11 legs. As soon as you beat an opponent you will climb a sublevel.
You start the game by throwing at the bull. If you hit 25/50 you start the game. If you miss the bull, the opponent will start. For the experienced level, you need to hit the bullseye to start the game. You need to finish the legs using fewer throws/darts than the opponent.
One more thing… To force you to keep practicing and you will need to play this game on a regular basis to keep you level status.
If you don’t play Master-501 again in 14 days, you will drop one sublevel and if you don’t play Master-501 again in 30 days, you will lose your achieved level and the game is restarted.
Thanks Pascal for a great game idea!
Start at 501 and score as much as possible.
You need to reach any of the checkmarks to get points in this game.
Darts Mathlete is all about repetition. You choose the checkout to start with and you then will be shown alternatives to solve the checkout.
For every player who wants to achive a strong and consistent game, dedicated focused practice at their weaker doubles and trebles should be done on a regular basis. If you get stuck on a certain double during a Doubles Lock session for example, you should get back and dedicate quality practice time for that target only. The new Virtual Coach concept will also make this easier for you and analyse all your stats to find the weak doubles/trebles and use Dedication to sharpen your skills.
I remember when we added the Doubles Lock game to GoDartsPro and both Mikko and I was doing the final test of the game before launch. I played the game a few times every day and I got stuck on the double 12 every time. Mikko’s response to it was that I should dedicate the next training sessions for that double only and not quit (but taking shorter breaks) until I had 100 hits.
It took quite a while but the feeling when I hit the #100 I felt like I owned the double.
With gained confidence, I nailed the double with the 1st dart the next time I played Doubles Lock.
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Dedication
In the game Dedication you will select your target number (single, double or treble) and the limit for your practice. You can choose to throw a number of darts or until you finished a number of hits. You can also choose to play for a dedicated time. In this game you can also choose to track if your missed dart was a close miss or not. Even if your stats doesn’t show increased number of hits it can be encouraging to see that more and more missed darts are tracked as close missed darts. Pick out 2 or 3 doubles/trebles you know you’re having a hard time and use Dedication to sharpen your skills for these targets. |
It is challenging times for all of us and it is still impossible to tell when this Corona crisis is over or at least under control. We all just need to do our best and follow the rules and the guidance the experts provides us with.
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Many darts players are frustrated that the tournaments and leagues are put on hold due to the Coronavirus and they are stuck in quarantine at home. I’m working hard to provide the players with new games and features to keep them inspired to practice harder.
Games are fun to play and are often very addictive, and many researchers realize that games also provide a perfect platform for tackling real-world problems. That’s one of the reasons I developed the Lockdown Challenge for GoDartsPro. I’ve seen studies and gamification added to boost cancer therapy and games designed to empower kids fighting cancer.
We all need to take the situation serious of course but i strongly believe that it is a good thing to play a fun darts training game to vent your frustration while you’re improving.
The core idea of the game is to hit the targets that are under attack and try to wipe the virus attacks away.
Only the fields with the red doubles on the board are affected (20,18,13 etc).
You reduce the attack with 3 for a treble hit, 2 for a double and 1 for a single hit. After every throw the board is attacked again and it is getting harder the longer you play.
When any field gets the attack rate 6 it is game over.
Play the different modes in the game:
– Challenge Mode
– Level 1, 2 and 3
In the Challenge mode you’ll want to keep the game running for as many throws as possible. Since the game gets tougher and tougher for every throw it is a real challenge to keep the game running.
Your pressure to hit the trebles increases with the attacks on the board.
With the options Level 1, 2 and 3 your aim is to remove the attacks completely.
You’ve won the game when there’s not attacks left.
As with many video games there’s also a BOSS MODE in this game. After a number of throws the BOSS MODE is activated and you need to hit BULLSEYE. You get 5 points for every time you hit the bullseye.
With the board under heavily attack you will need to hit at least one bullseye to feel safe to continue.
That’s the pressure we want to be prepared for the games when you need to perform under pressure to win the game.
I hope you like this game and that it will bring you some good practice during this tough time.
I also hope that you like this game’s layout, the way to track your scores and the video games features such as the BOSS MODE.
I’d like to get some feedback about this game so please send me an email or a direct message on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram and tell me what you think.
Meanwhile, play the Lockdown Challenge here!
Keep on doing everything to stay safe and keep your practice inspiration at top level!
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Enjoy your darts!
– Anders
GoDartsPro.com
All darts players search for the darts practice routine that will make them improve faster. As a result, spending fewer hours practising but with better results.
But is there really a darts practice game that will make you improve faster?
Let me introduce – “Mikko’s Megatrain”!
Mikko Laiho (formerly worked with Winmau / Red Dragon Darts and GoDartsPro but tragically passed away during 2019) who invented this game used it frequently during his coaching sessions with intermediate to advanced players. Even for pro players, he told me. For instance, Mikko used this training game to put one of the best routines out there in their hands. But he also used it to test their level of dedication to improve. As a result, it also taught them that getting better in darts needs intense and focused practice. Because this is a tough game to play for most of us.
I see that many players struggle with the game by going through the statistics on GoDartsPro. Playing the game for more than an hour before they throw the last dart in this routine.
Mikko Laiho was also the inventor of the bespoken “12 weeks program” (previously sold at Red Dragon Darts website) and he used this game for many of the buyers of this training program. He proudly talked about the outstanding improvement many of the players showed after only a few weeks after adding this game to their daily training routine.
The game has been on GoDartsPro for over a year but I’ve now restructured it and added some new features to make it useful for more levels of players.
The rules for this training routine are simple. Throw three darts at the current target. You need to hit at least two of the target to continue to the next one. As a result, you will improve your grouping ability.
But there’s one exception to the rule.
If you manage to hit the target with your last dart and then hit the target with the first dart of your next throw you used the burn dart rule and you’re ready for the next target.
But don’t worry, the application will take care of this rule for you.
The new layout lets you track each dart will give your statistics a new dimension. It is still very straight-forward user interface using big buttons to easily track your game. Since this game will take some time to finish there’s a Pause-function for you to use after 20-40 minutes of intense throwing. After that, you’re good for another intense training session. Remember, it is more effective to play 3 x 30 minutes than throwing for 90 minutes straight!
The new “beginner” option makes it easier to get started to use this game. How ever, this can still be a tricky game for many players, since the targets are trebles and doubles.
You now need to hit only one of the current target to continue to the next one.
When you managed to finish the game you will get a screen with all the statistics from the training session.
To the top right on the start screen of the game, you see the red tilted button “Your Stats”.
This will show you your aggregated stats over time. Your best time, which targets you struggle with the most and if you improve your single hits % over time. How ever, even if you aim to hit 2 darts on each target it is also inspiring to see if you’re getting more single hits over time.
This is truly a great game that we recommend you to play on a regular basis.
There are many reasons to practice this game regularly. Above all, it keeps you focused.
It will also surely teach you that getting better in darts demands dedication and hard work.
There are no shortcuts whatsoever. Using the right training games for your level and goals are crucial to make the best use of your practice time.
So what are you waiting for – add the Mikko’s Megatrain to your daily routine now!
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 :
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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”.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
Our social darts training concepts Darts Battle and Challenge combined makes it more fun to practice and inspires you to practice more focused.
The concept 1001 Battle on GoDartsPro teaches you to focus only on your own scoring without looking at the opponents scores. It’s you with the darts at the board. Nothing else exists. Now get in and make it count!
Each battle have 6 player spots and once you join a battle your spot is locked and you play a leg of 1001. You have one hour to finish the game before it will be treated as a walkover. Once all 6 player have played their leg the starting order of the players will be randomized and you will be able to follow the scorings in the battle, one by one. So remember, the starting order for the players are random and the player that finish the leg first wins the battle.
Play a leg of 1001 and finish with a double. Easy and fast to track your scores down to your finish.
When all 6 players have finished their game the results will be available. You can show the game score by score or just the final results.
There are multiple Challenges available on GoDartsPro where you compete over time against thousands of other members. If you are a premium member you can play as many times as you want to and the best score will your challenge score.
With Darts Battle Challenge the results from your battles will be added to your total challenge score. If you win a battle you’ll get 5 points. If you end up as #2 you will get 3 points and if you manage to end up on 3rd place you’ll get 1 point.
My core idea with the Darts Battle and the Challenges is to make it more fun and competitive to practice darts. If these games can leave you with the feeling of:
Just one more time… i’ve succeeded and it was worth the time developing the ideas. Give it a try now and let me know what you think.
Also as mentioned in the intro, it is always good to focus only on your own scores and scoring abilities during a game, and not get stressed about the opponent nailing a big score.
Do you also enjoy the idea of social darts practice? I’d love to get some feedback about this. What games would you like to see featured as a battle or as a challenge?
Or do you have a new twist to it that would help you practice more?
Send me a message on Twitter, Facebook or by email and let me know your thoughts!
Take care, be kind and as always – enjoy your darts!
All the best,
Anders
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This is our flagship, the Crown Judgement! You can play this game only once in a month, so you better get your focus right before starting this game.
Why only once in a month? Because we know that playing the same game over and over again gives you an edge – you get naturally in games which you practise! It’s human nature. So therefore we locked this bad boy for a month per time because you want to know your TRUE improvement, and a month is a decent time for that. Not more, not less, but a month.
This is a measurement tool like no other!
We divided this game in five different sections, which all are essential to everyone who loves and wants to compete in darts. This game lasts approximately one hour, so make sure before you start that you have got time for this. Also we recommend highly that you have a short break somewhere in the middle of the game.
You start by hitting MAJOR DOUBLES, which are the most important part of any darts players’ game. Mark the score after every throw, or if you trust your memory and want to have a bit of flow, you can mark after two or even three throws your hits up.
Then it’s time for BIG TREBLES, which is very similar to the previous division of this game.
Now you approach the part of the game called COMBO CHECK-OUTS and the rules get a bit trickier. You’ve exactly 6 darts to finish the first target score. But if you do it earlier, you gain extra points by hitting the same double again you managed to finish on! So in every turn of this game, all six darts are used. So read the instructions very carefully.
You’ve exactly 6 darts to finish the current target score. But if you do it earlier, you gain extra points by hitting the same double again that you managed to finish on! If you are busted and got darts left you continue to try to finish the checkout.
You can get anything between 0 to 6 points at every turn. Mark them up and fill in the form and you’re ready to move on to SCORING section of 36 BEST.
Now this one is easy again, all you need to do is to score as heavily as you can and mark up your scores after SIX darts.
After that, you are in the final stretch, The SHANGHAI NIGHTS. This is one that can make or break you, you can easily better your average doing well this game only! But there’s also pressure. First of all, you need to hit three different targets with your six darts per turn. Single, double, and treble, all of them only ONCE. You get a point from the correct single, correct double, and correct treble.
If you manage to hit these all earlier than six darts, go for the Bullseye! You gain an extra point by hitting 25, two extra points by hitting 2-3 25’s, three extra points by 4 or more 25’s – and remember bullseye or 50 is always 2 times 25.
So you’re using every turn exactly 6 darts, no less, no more.
In all five sections, the maximum score is 108 as total, so the maximum is 540 but you will be only shown your MICO-factor scores.
Even though Mikko’s idea was that this game must be played in one session, with one or two short breaks in between, I’ve now added the functionality to resume a started but not finished session. Mainly because I’ve had a few members reporting that their WiFi dropped in the middle of a session and that session was ruined. So, I recommend you to still finish the game in one session but with a short break after 20-30 minutes or so.
Seven throws makes it perfectly sized game for training and the pressure remains until you’ve thrown the last dart in hand.
In general we don’t like to give our players straight on guidelines, but this game is so familiar that we make an exception with Cricket Bundle.
Beginners should be aiming to receive 15 points, pub team players can be happy achieving 20, if you play in super-league you should reach 25 and those who are travelling to competitions nearby 30 will be your goal.
If you want to present your county or country 35 is the target and if you want to be seen on the TV-stages you really should be able to get 40 points now and then.
We also made this as a MICO-Factor game which means that after you played it at least 5 times you will see your MICO-Factor for the game. Read more about our MICO-Factor games here ».
You will also find the new in-app-stats for this game. By clicking the “Your Stats” button (in red to the right of the game) you will see interesting stats of your practice sessions. This new “in-app-stats” will be added to all our games one by one.
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HINTS: I cheat pretty much every time I practise real hard! By cheating I mean using ‘Check-points’. Check-point in any game should be somewhere middle-game, so in this case it could be number 17. As I consider myself as ‘30 plus guy’ I should have at least 12 points done at number 17, then I still can up my game a bit and reach the required 18 points with my last four targets 18, 19, 20 and 25/50. But if I’m still below 12 points at this stage I just start again from the beginning!
This is just to brush up your peak performance, which I personally prefer compared to basic averages. It’s actually good to think you’re just a little bit better than you really are, because it may turn out to be true – when you believe in!
I know this must sound horrendous to all the stats-purists, but I am not one of them.
It’s up to you!
There are a lot of aspects that makes any darts training drill a great game.
It needs to be:
* Challenging
* Inspiring
* Fun
* Simulating pressure
* Right level for the player
Our new doubles practice game, Doubles Lock, has it all.
You can compete with yourself on many levels in this game:
1) Finish the game – it’s quite a task itself
2) As quick as possible – play the clock
3) Score as much as possible
4) Least amount of darts used
Throw three darts at the same double and your first target double 20.
Each target needs at least one hit to move on to next target double 19. As a result if you miss the 19’s – you are back on hitting the 20’s.
When you hit the target double twice or thrice you lock that number for further play – you don’t need to go back any further.
Every time you manage to hit more than one target double, you get points. 2 hits means 50 points, three hits 100 points.
EXAMPLE:
You hit Double 20 twice, now you get 50 points and it becomes locked and your new starting-base is Double 19.
When you then continue and hit Doubles 19, 18 and 17 once each the pressure becomes massive on Double 16.
If you miss Double 16 with all three darts you’re back at your base which now is Double 19 because you locked Double 20.
But, if you instead hit Double 16 with all 3 darts you score 100 points and 16 is now your new base!
Play the game until Double 1 is done and dusted.
Depending on your player level this game will normally take 20-60 minutes to finish and it doesn’t suit for beginners.
For the moment GoDartsPro is only available in English but in December 2025 we restarted the project to make the website + games translated to other languages such as German, French, Dutch and more. This is of course a big project so please have patience and we’ll try to add the translations as soon as possible.
In the mean time, there are some translations plugins that works with different browsers to check out which could help you understand the information on the pages, and the rules of the games. The details and the voice in the games will not be translated however.
Please let us know if you have any questions or suggestions.
If you have got a promo-code card from GoDartsPro at an event or from a friend, you need to redeem the code on the Premium page.
Go to the premium page and scroll down to the section with the headline “Got a Gift/Promotion Card code to redeem?” or click the button below.
Enter the code in the text-field and click the button “Redeem code”. The code can only be used once.
Short answer: NO!
GoDartsPro is a partner with Scolia who allows 3rd party software developers like GoDartsPro to interact with their autos-coring devices through their API.
Target doesn’t allow this.
Click here’s for a video by a player who compares the Omni with Scolia!
On GoDartsPro we automatically track any 180 you hit in most of the games, and add them to a register for you. When you hit 180’s on tournaments or when not playing on GoDartsPro you can also add these manually later.
You can set the goal for the year in two different ways.
On top right (just below the green search button) on your profile page you see the header 180’s and the current year. Below it you might see 0/0 or any numbers representing the 180’s you already tracked. The 0/0 represents that you hit 0 180’s and that you yet haven’t set a goal for how many 180’s you’re planning to throw during the year.
Click the 0 representing the goal or the + sign to the right of it and a dialog will be shown where you are prompted to set a goal for the year. Set a reasonable goal for you to work against over the year. Make it count!
At your profile page, you can also click the image below to go to your 180’s summary page:
If you haven’t yet set a goal for the year the first box on the page will show the current year with a sign SET GOAL. Click the box and the dialog to set the goal will appear.
On GoDartsPro you can do a year review and see what games you played, how many darts you threw, how many 180’s you hit etc. Click the round profile button top right on the website and select My Training log.
Once you are on the training log you have a link on the top of the calendar saying “Show summary for 2025” (or the current year we’re in).
Click that link or or click the link below to go to your summary of the year:
You’re not allowed to reset your statistics on your own for different reasons.
If you login to your account using a tablet at an academy or public venue, and forget to logout, someone could wipe out years of your training by accident or purely by ill will.
But also, we don’t want you to be tempted to wipe out your statistics just because you been playing worse for a few days or weeks, or just changed to a set of new darts. Your statistics is your hard work and part of your progress and shouldn’t be erased that easily.
But if you for example not have been able to practise for a long time because of an injury or accident, or maybe switched throwing arm because of dartitis, and really would like to start over with a fresh account, contact us and we’ll reset your account for your. Send an email to info@godartspro.com, including your username from the email address you used for your GoDartsPro account, and let us know that you want to clear your account, and we’ll have a look at your account.
GoDartsPro is a partner with Scolia and now have +80 games with support for their auto-scoring system. See more about the games and how to connect your Scolia to GoDartsPro here.
Target doesn’t allow third-party-software-developers to access their Omni, so if you want to get the most out of your training and use GoDartsPro – choose Scolia!
To upload and change your profile photo/image, follow these steps:
1) Go to your profile page (top right round button on website)
2) Under the template image (grey with skull) – click MENU
3) Then select “Change photo” and upload a jpg/png (square preferably)
Some devices/browsers may have issues with this so if you can’t manage to upload a photo using your phone, try a computer or tablet and it will hopefully work better. If not, please contact support at: info@godartspro.com!
Members on GoDartsPro are not allowed to change their username on their own on the website.
But if you want to change it, send an email to info@godartspro.com and include your current username, your email address used on GoDartsPro and the username you would like to change to, and we will check that it is available and change it for you. The username needs to be unique and with +80.000 registered members on GoDartsPro, many usernames are already taken. Then you might need to add numbers, or change the spelling in some way to make it unique.
There are now more than 120 different games on GoDartsPro with different rules, targets and with multiple options. That’s why we use a scripted voice/caller for the scores and different phases of the games, which relies on a Javascript library. That’s why different browsers can have different support for voices.
If you have any problems with the voice in any of the games, you can try a different browser or device to see if it works better there for you.
Having pre-recorded audio-files for all these many thousands of combinations haven’t yet been possible. We’re currently investigating if there are other ways to use speech in the games in a dynamic way.
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The MasterClass concept on GoDartsPro is a level-hopping concept, that is you have to finish the 1st game to unlock the next and so on. You need to go through tasks to unlock the next one and they will become more difficult as you proceed.
There will be pressure… This is a very good way to keep your training interesting, because you need to focus to go as far in this game as you can. See what you really are made of and don’t forget to enjoy your practice!
There are games in the first level that appears again in the 2nd and 3rd level, but now with tougher tasks to finish. If you haven’t tried MasterClass do it today!
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Cricket-Bundle
9 Darts Gym
Three Stooges
Double Tussle
Consistency 51
Checkout Climb
Cricket Bundle
9 Darts Gym
Three Stooges
More Score
Route 66
TrebleDoubleJump
Kill Bull
Three Strikes
DoubleTussle
Concistency 51
Checkout Climb
10-20
DoubleHop
91-100 x 2
19 Halve It
DoubleTussle
Highscore x 8
Checkout Climb
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Cricket Bundle
9 Darts Gym
More Score
Route 77
TrebleDoubleJump
Kill Bull
Three Strikes
Double-Double-Hop
MegaTrain
Even Doubles
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If you have got a gift card for premium membership on GoDartsPro, either by friends or family who bought it on GoDartsPro or as a promotion from GoDartsPro at an event or club, follow these steps to redeem it:
– Login or register a free account on GoDartsPro.
– Go to the Premium page on GoDartsPro
– Scroll down to the section where you see the box with the text “Got a Gift/Promotion Card code to redeem?”
– Enter the code from the gift card and click the Redeem code button
If you’ve bought a gift card on GoDartsPro it will be emailed to your directly. If you haven’t yet received the email, check your spam-folder and see if it is there. If you still can’t find it send an email to info@godartspro.com with details about the purchase, and we will send a new gift card to you.
For any questions regarding the Red Dragon Darts voucher promotion for JDC players, please contact Red Dragon Darts directly.
If you have an active monthly premium membership and would like to upgrade to annual premium membership instead, follow these steps:
1) Cancel your existing monthly subscription either following the link on your payments page to edit your subscription or by sending an email to info@godartspro.com along with your username or email address used on GoDartsPro, and we’ll cancel it for you.
2) Go to the premium page and choose the 1 year premium, either using Stripe or Paypal.
The 1 year premium payment will be added after your existing premium period so you will not lose any premium days.
When you have to change the email address, or your name you’ve used on GoDartsPro, go to your Profile page (click top right round button). Under your profile image to the left you’ll see a MENU-button. Click that button to expand a drop-down-menu. Click the “My account” menu item and you’ll be able to update your name and email address.
If you can’t remember what’s your email address used on GoDartsPro visit this page as well.
As a premium member you get access to:
* More than 100 darts training games
* The Virtual Coach that will provide you with training tasks based on your current level
* Monthly Challenges where you compete against other members
* Support for Scolia to autotrack the darts in more than 70 games
* MasterClass – the first and only level-hopping darts training concept
* Premium League – a unique training concept against thousands of other players
* Battles – Play 1001 battles against other members
* FUN GAMES – Multiplayer fun games that you can play against friends and family (2-8 players)
* Playlists – Create your own or follow and play other members playlists
* Training articles and videos in this support section of GoDartsPro
* Training log + calendar, to plan your training and follow up your results
Besides all these valuable and fun features for your darts, with the premium membership we also store all your statistics.This way you can easily follow up your training sessions and continue to use the Virtual Coach for example, which use your stats a lot to suggest new tasks for you.
GoDartsPro is a social darts training platform where you can use the other members scores as triggers and goals for your own training. You can also use the public playlists from thousands of members to get inspiration to practise structured in a new way.
You have also access to the GoDartsPro Support as a premium member. Both the Support area you’re reading this in, but also the support you easily can reach either by email or direct message on GoDartsPro’s social media channels.
Since GoDartsPro also sponsors the Junior Darts Cooperation (JDC), Winmau Team 360 and JDC Cadets, by upgrading to premium you’re also helping the future of darts trying to reach their dreams and goals.
With the increased popularity of the amazing autotracking devices from Scolia, more and more members use Scolia together with GoDartsPro. Now more and more public venues, clubs and darts academies also use Scolia. Functionality to set up and use multiple Scolia’s with your account on GoDartsPro has therefore been requested frequently lately. It is now available so check out below how to set it up!
On the Scolia page on GoDartsPro you can now register and set up multiple Scolia devices to use for your training at different places. You need the serial-number for the Scolia-device (printed in the manual/order from Scolia) and the format should be NNNN-NNNN-NNNN (where N = alphanumeric value).
At a public venue you could ask the staff for the serial-number to set it up and use with your GoDartsPro-account. Give the device a name to easily identify the device in the list on GoDartsPro.
With a Scolia device registered on GoDartsPro, you will see a small badge appear in the top right of the game (for games with Scolia support).
Now there’s a small dropdown menu button next to the Scolia symbol and the text READY. When you click the button a drop-down list will be shown with all your registered devices. There you can easily switch device for your training session and you can also Unselect the current device. This can be useful if you for example are a coach with multiple Scolias in your club/JDC Academy but need to track the darts manually at a board without a Scolia.
When you do a switch, the game will reload with the selected device connected.
All the stats saved on GoDartsPro are saved in the timezone for UK. So if you live and practise somewhere else it can be frustrating to see your stats published on wrong date and time. Follow these instructions to set the right timezone for your own stats.
Click the profile image in the header (top right) and a drop-down menu will appear.
There you’ll find the Settings menu item that will take you to the Settings page.
On the settings page you’ll find the option to set your timezone for your statistics to the right.
This will not change how the stats are saved and will only adjust your personal statistics shown for you.
Dates & times shown in public leaderboards and challenges will not be affected by this change. It will always be shown in UK time so everyone can compare and see the leaderboards in the same way.
Are you also having some graphical issues on your iPad/iPhone when using GoDartsPro? For example, flags in leaderboards now showing correctly, white text that suddenly turns black during game play. I recently bought a new iPad and things looked really weird sometimes and I couldn’t see any flag in the leaderboards.
Then you also need to reset the Experimental features for your browser to make it work again.
If you visit the 201 Challenge game for example, and you can’t see the players flags like the image above, you need to do some changes for your browser.
This article explains how to reset the Experimental features for your browser to make it work again.
If you still are having any issues, please send me an email (info@godartspro.com) and explain your problem as detailed as possible and I will try to find a solution for your problem as soon as possible.
On the header of GoDartsPro, click on your profile page icon and a dropdown menu will appear.
Click the Payments menu option and you’ll be redirected to the page where your latest payments will be shown.
In the bottom of the page, you’ll be able to click and edit/cancel your subscription on your own.
You can also always contact GoDartsPro (email or direct message on Social media), and let us know your username/email used, and we’ll cancel it for you as soon as possible.
You can see your payments for your premium membership on the following page, and if you have an active premium membership there will also be a link to change/cancel the subscription there:
If you have any questions or issues cancelling the premium membership, please send me an email and let me know your username and I will cancel it for you!
You can also cancel the subscription directly at Stripe/Paypal who handles your subscription
The number of members on GoDartsPro that also are playing in a JDC Academy increase every week. That’s fantastic and for them, we want to show their progress in best possible way. For all the premium players who also are connected to a JDC Academy, we’ve developed and launched the JDC Players hub, where the players can see all their stats from the JDC Challenge routine they play every week during their grading session.
They will both see their Official scores, when the player has played the routine with a coach tracking the scores, and their practice scores. We also show their top scores and the top section scores from the routine to highlight what the player should aim to beat.
Next to the personal scores we also show the top players’ scores in the academy.
This content hub is available from the top menu JDC on GoDartsPro for all logged-in JDC players with a premium membership on GoDartsPro.com.
On GoDartsPro you can connect with current friends and make new and follow their practice sessions.
For you to see that your friends are practicing hard will inspire you to practice harder yourself.
In some games (such as 501 and Cricket) you can also play against your friends.
On the Players-page you can click on each members and send a Friend request to connect with other players on GoDartsPro.
Within soon we will launch a new social practice concept on GoDartsPro that will make it more fun to practice with your friends.
So, invite your darts friends and start practicing darts harder!
By adding your different darts setups (dart, stem type/length, flights shape) you can track your practice and from the statistics see which setup that works best for you.
The feel of the setup will vary and sometimes the setup that feels the best doesn’t work the best for you.
By tracking your setup during your practice you will have it in black and white in your stats.
After you have played a MICO-factor game 5 times you will see your MICO-factor for that game.
To get your total MICO-factor you need to play 5 different MICO-games 5 times each.
The membership is completely free and most training games are free to try, and there is also a few free practice games to use.
But if you are serious about your darts training you should consider to become a Premium member.
As a Premium Member you will access all our +100 games, the Virtual Coach, statistics, the MICO-factor games, the MasterClass, multiplayer FUN GAMES and many extra functions within the games.
Read more about how to be a Premium member here.
GoDartsPro is a responsive website that works on all modern devices/platforms.
There might be some differences between browsers when you visit our website.
Our recommendation is to use a modern PC/Mac/Smartphone/Tablet with a browser such as Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge.
If you have any problems using the games on your device/browser, please test the issue on some other device/browser listed above, to exclude that the problem is related to your device/browswer, before you try to contact us.
We’ve got reports that TV browsers, browsers on Raspberry Pi, Amazon Fire tablets lack the support for some Javascript functions needed to work with GoDartsPro properly.
We aim to make our games work on all platforms/devices/browsers.
Please let us know if you have any problems or further questions!
With so many options and games it can be daunting to get started and hard to choose where to start. You can use the Virtual Coach in many ways but here are our thoughts and ideas how we intended it to be used when we started to work on this massive project of ours.
Upon every visit to the Virtual Coach area, the system checks if you have any unfinished tasks that still got time to be finished.
If not, the Virtual Coach analyses your previous tasks and statistics and adds 3 new tasks for you to finish. The tasks are mainly based upon how you’ve been performing for the games earlier, if you haven’t played the games yet, and also try to add games for categories you haven’t practise that much lately. But also, there’s a randomness added to it to avoid being to static.
Of course, you need to be fully warmed-up before you start any training!
If you fail to finish the tasks after a few tries, take a break and do something else. Play a game you know that you often get a good score in or can finish in a good way to boost your confidence a bit. If you’ve been struggling with a game for quite a while, it is often a good idea to try to inject some confidence back into your system!
The Virtual Coach will check if you have played the Crown Judgement game the past 30 days. If not, you’ll face a major alert in the header of the Virtual Coach page. This is added since it is good to make it a habit to play the game every 30 days to get a measurement of how you’re doing. Since the game will take about an hour to finish, make sure you got the time for it and maybe leave the Virtual Coach tasks until you’ve finished the Crown Judgement game and had a good break as well.
The Virtual Coach will alert you about different things that need some extra focus. These are often games that are part of the Premium League where you are losing positions in the leaderboards because you haven’t played 10 sessions for the game the past 30 days. So click the alerts and play a few rounds and the alerts will disappear soon.
In the dashboard of the Virtual Coach you’ll see a lot of different statistics. The sections will vary during the month so make sure to go back often checking the stats. It is a good idea to check your stats for the JDC Challenge game. Play this game regularly to get a decent amount of stats to dig into. Then you’ll be able to see what numbers and doubles you need to work on to improve. Make it a habit to do a few sessions of the Dedication game, selecting these numbers and doubles to do some extra training.
The Workout function of the Virtual Coach is intended to be used when you’ve finished your tasks, checked the alerts and have played the Crown Judgement and need some extra training in certain areas of the game. The fun and the beauty of this feature is that you both can select how many games you want to play but you will only see the first one until you’ve finished it. Then the 2nd game will be unlocked. Go for it! You can do this!
The different quotes and information shown by the coach are intended to be read to give you some extra confidence and maybe inspire you to think outside the box more often. Many of the quotes are from athletes of other sports who all had the same values and goals. To try to pracise more focused, structured, and to improve faster!
And if you want more, there are tons of good books and articles written by golf players, basketball coaches, archery athlete etc.
There are so many things you can add to your daily routines that will improve you as a darts player.
Think outside the box and you will improve!
All the premium members can use the Virtual Coach for their practice.
The Virtual Coach is not just for professional players. Even the beginners can have good fun and use with the Virtual Coach.
Click on Virtual Coach in the top menu (or the blue/pink skulle to the right in the header) to go to the Virtual Coach area.
If you haven’t yet started to use the Virtual Coach, you will first get some more information about the concept. You will then face a player form that you first need to enter.
Be honest when you’re entering your details in this form since it will be used and based for your activities with the Virtual Coach.
Once this is done you will be asked to play different tasks needs you need to achieve to start the coaching.
Click on the unfinished task to complete them one by one. Some might be a bit tough for your level, but it is all used by the Virtual Coach to understand your current level.
The Virtual Coach base its coaching and tasks based on your previous activities and results on GoDartsPro.
NOTE! You have to get your MICO-factor first, by playing at least 5 of the MICO-factor games – 5 times each!
Click on the image below to see your current MICO-factor stats:
Once you’ve finished your required tasks you will be shown to the Virtual Coach area.
The Virtual Coach will suggests tasks with games for you to finish every day. The goals are mostly based on your statistics and previous sessions for the game.
But if you haven’t yet played the game, the Virtual Coach will compare your other stats with the thousands of members on GoDartsPro, and try to suggest a reasonable goal for you.
You’re now ready to investigate the different functions and information on the Virtual Coach area.
Check this Support FAQ for more information and please contact GoDartsPro whenever you have any questions or suggestions.
To upload a photo to your profile page, first click the top right round grey button in the menu to fold out the drop-down-menu. Then select the “My Profile Page”.
Then when you are on your profile page, click the MENU button below the temporary profile photo to fold out the drop-down-menu for your profile, and select the “Change photo” menu option.
When the photo is shown in the box, you will be able to crop and adjust the photo for your profile. When you’re happy with how the photo looks like Done to save it to your profile.
The page will reload and you will see your new profile photo on your profile page as well as in the header of GoDartsPro.
Now you’re good to go and remember to share your profile on Social Media so other darts players can find you on GoDartsPro! 🙂
On the header of GoDartsPro, click on your profile page icon and a dropdown menu will appear.
Click the Payments menu option and you’ll be redirected to the page where your latest payments will be shown.
In the bottom of the page, you’ll be able to click and edit/cancel your subscription on your own.
You can also always contact GoDartsPro (email or direct message on Social media), and let us know your username/email used, and we’ll cancel it for you as soon as possible.
The profile page is the center of your member account on GoDartspro.
On the top of your page you will have an introduction to you as a player and summary of your activities on GoDartsPro so far.
Enter your details, select your flag for the leaderboards and upload a photo of you as a player (easiest to do on a computer).
In the summary section you can see how many sessions you’ve played on GoDartsPro and a graph of your latest 30 days training.
To the right you will see your 180’s tracked during the year and the past 30 days.
More and more games on GoDartsPro adds the 180’s to your register automatically when you’ve tracked the darts hitting a 180.
But if it isn’t added automatically or you hit a 180 during a game outside GoDartsPro or during a tournament, visit the profile page and click the + sign to add it manually.
You also have a section of your activities with the Virtual Coach as well as your current level in the MasterClass concept.
Just click on the different labels and stats and the page will take you there.
Click on MORE STATS to go to your training log where you’ll see your training sessions for the month or the year.
This section will be updated regularly with support content and training articles.
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