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The perfect darts leg takes nine darts

A player must start on 501 and finish on a double or the bull Nine darts is the minimum possible, using three treble 20s in each of three visits and then a 141 finish. The first televised nine-darter came from Paul Lim at the 1990 World Championship. Players now manage it several times a year on the professional tour. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: A player must start on 501 and finish on a double or the bull. The figure is taken from Professional Darts Corporation, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a sports fact?: Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.