If were on the topic of seed starting; I got ~99% success rate with the following method:
-Take a wine glass, fill it 1/2 way with water (the amount hardly matters)
-drop seeds in the water, they will float for about a day, after a day tap the floating seeds with a finger, they should drop to the bottom
-24-48 hours after initially dropping them on the water they should crack open and you should see a nice little tap root just cracking out (probably like 1/4 mm, but the crack open and white slit is the important part)
-From there I would plant into soil (roots organic original is by far my favorite), or a seed starter cube or something.
^this is how I do my seeds for just about every type of plant, especially weed. My issue with paper towels was that I sucked at it and would often let my seeds dry out or get too big of tap roots cuz I was lazy, with the glass of water method I knew if I left them in for 3+ days the seeds would start rotting and suffocate, so it was entirely successful and forced me to not be lazy
My 0.02, everybody has a best method for themselves