StringSpec
String finder

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Every string, plotted

All 784 strings carrying both measurements, on one chart. Every percentile the rest of the site quotes is a position in this cloud. This is what the cloud actually looks like, and why some combinations of qualities simply are not available at any price.

78 82 85 89 93 97 86 120 154 188 222 256 Energy return (%) higher = livelier, more free power Stiffness (lb/in) Long Life 15 Prime Gut Orange Bull 16 (1.30) Monotec Supersense 16L/1.25 Twice Shark (1.25)
Polyester 480 Nylon 231 Nylon/Polyester 18 Gut 18 Nylon/Polyurethane 17 Nylon/Zyex 11 Nylon/Polyolefin 6 Unspecified 4 Polyolefin 3

Each dot is one string. The faint cross-hairs are the database median on each axis, the line every percentile quoted elsewhere on the site is measured against. Marked points are the four strings furthest into each corner: landmarks, not recommendations.

Axes are clipped to the 1st–99th percentile so the field is legible rather than squashed against one outlier. 18 strings sit outside that range and are drawn on the edge: Babolat RPM Team 16 Black, Babolat Revenge 16, Kirschbaum Touch Multifibre 16, Luxilon 4G 16 (1.30), Luxilon 4G 16L (1.25), Luxilon 4G S 15 and 12 more.

What the corners mean

The empty regions matter as much as the full ones. Where this plot has no dots, no manufacturer has managed that combination. It is not that nobody has thought to sell it.

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