In the method of driving a plasma display panel according to the present invention, the address electrodes are divided into a plurality of electrode groups, and the an application time point of data pulses applied to one or more of the address electrode groups in the address period is different from that of a scan pulse applied to the scan electrode in all the sub-fields of the frame. In addition, the width of the scan pulse applied during an address period of a predetermined number of the sub-fields is greater than the width of scan pulses applied during the address period of the remaining sub-fields.