Plan
A training plan: thirty minutes a day
In short
Half an hour a day splits into four blocks: five minutes of warm-up, thirty darts at the 20 with nothing at stake, ten minutes of technique between the treble 20 and the doubles, ten minutes of a solo leg at 501 or 301, and five minutes to read the score and average back. One target a week is enough, five points of average say, and darts left out beforehand keep the routine alive.
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18 May 2026
Updated 26 September 2026
Plan
Thirty minutes, four blocks
Half an hour most days does more than three hours at the weekend. A repeatable throw is built by coming back to it, not by one long session.
The plan
- Warm-up (5 min) — thirty darts at the 20, slowly, with nothing at stake.
- Technique (10 min) — five minutes of sets at the treble 20, then five on the doubles you actually finish on: D20, D16, D10.
- A game (10 min) — a solo 501 or 301. Write down the score and your average.
- Reading it back (5 min) — look at what you wrote and pick the one thing to work on tomorrow.
How to actually keep it up
- Have the darts out before you start, not in a drawer.
- Keep the figures somewhere — a notebook does fine.
- Change the drills around, so the session does not become a chore.
- Set one target a week, and only one: five points of average, say.
Drills to rotate in
- Around the clock — every number from 1 to 20, then the bull.
- Checkouts — finish from the scores that keep coming up: 40, 32, 24.
- One bed, ten times — pick a bed and land in it ten times in a row.