What Is Checkout Percentage and How to Improve It | Oche

You can out-score an opponent all night and still lose if you can’t shut the door. Checkout percentage is the stat that exposes this — and for most amateur players it’s the single biggest area for improvement. Here’s what it means and how to push it up.

What checkout percentage measures

Checkout percentage is how often you finish a leg when given the chance at a double. It isolates your finishing skill from your scoring, so it answers one question: when you’re on a finish, how reliably do you close it?

How it’s calculated

(Legs finished ÷ darts thrown at a double) × 100

If across a session you had 12 darts at a double and converted 3 of them into leg wins, your checkout percentage is (3 ÷ 12) × 100 = 25%. Note it counts darts at a double, not total visits — so missing the double with all three darts in a turn counts as up to three failed attempts.

What’s a good rate?

It climbs steeply with standard:

• Beginner: 5–15%
• Improving / pub: 15–25%
• League: 25–40%
• Professional: 40%+

Crossing 25% is the mark of a genuinely competitive finisher. Our checkout percentage guide breaks the bands down further with realistic targets.

Why it’s often the weak spot

Scoring and finishing are separate skills. Treble-20 practice doesn’t make you better at doubles — they’re different targets thrown under different pressure. Most players spend 90% of practice scoring and then wonder why their finishing lets them down. The fix is to drill doubles deliberately.

Drills that move the number

• Doubles around the board: hit D1, then D2, all the way to D20 and the bull.
• “Double trouble”: give yourself a finish (say 40) and count attempts to close it.
• Bob’s 27: the classic doubles-pressure game — see our Bob’s 27 practice guide.

For a full set, the doubles practice drills article lays out a weekly routine. It also helps to leave good doubles in the first place — our best doubles to aim for covers the halving chains that keep a double in play after a miss.

Measure it, then watch it climb

You can’t improve a percentage you never count. The Oche X01 scorer logs every double attempt and calculates your checkout percentage automatically, and the stats dashboard breaks it down by individual double so you can see exactly which finishes are costing you legs — and prove the drills are working.