Well: What has always worked for me is to: Get 2 nice salad plates or dinner plates that fit with each other, have two paper towels on hand, have a spray bottle with distilled water.
Fold the paper towel in half, put it on a plate. Spritz it with distilled water from your bottle until it is damp. Not soaked, just damp. Place your seeds on the paper towel. Cover with the second towel folded over. Spritz this paper towel until it is damp. Not soaking wet. Just damp. Now cover the seeds with the other plate.
All nice and dark. Give them a couple of days. Do not get in a big rush. You may actually seem something after a day or so but, be careful lifting the top paper cloth. You do not want to rip the seeds up. As soon as you see the smallest bit of root opening from the seed go ahead and plant it. Leave the rest until they start to show a root.
Do not leave the little guys there after they start to open. It is right into the planting mix as soon as they start to open. You risk damaging many too many tiny roots doing that.
This is called stratification in the nursery business.
Look for stratification of seeds on a search engine.