Head to head
Gamma RZR Rx 17 vs Solinco Hyper-G-Soft 16L (1.25)
Hyper-G-Soft 16L (1.25) leads on 3 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is ball bite, where Hyper-G-Soft 16L (1.25) is 27 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.
Measured, side by side
Bars are percentile against all 791 strings, and the marked side is the one that measures better, which is not always the one you want. A firmer bed is worse for your elbow and better for your control, and no measurement knows which of those you came for.
Which one wins, by problem
Each string's standing on the site's rankings, out of every measured string in the database. This is where a comparison stops being arithmetic and starts being a decision.
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RZR Rx 17344th
Hyper-G-Soft 16L (1.25)255th
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RZR Rx 17336th
Hyper-G-Soft 16L (1.25)310th
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RZR Rx 17447th
Hyper-G-Soft 16L (1.25)468th
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RZR Rx 17329th
Hyper-G-Soft 16L (1.25)320th
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RZR Rx 17363rd
Hyper-G-Soft 16L (1.25)368th
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RZR Rx 17155th
Hyper-G-Soft 16L (1.25)569th
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RZR Rx 17324th
Hyper-G-Soft 16L (1.25)313th
Swapping between them: what tension?
Bed stiffness is published at one reference tension, so the only honest conversion is to scale it. These are starting points from 52 lb, not prescriptions. The calculator takes your own tension.
Coming from RZR Rx 17 at 52 lb
String Hyper-G-Soft 16L (1.25) at 56.0 lb 25.4 kg
Coming from Hyper-G-Soft 16L (1.25) at 52 lb
String RZR Rx 17 at 48.3 lb 21.9 kg
Hybrid: what if you used both?
Estimated, not measured. No hybrid combination has been tested as a bed. These figures are the two strings' own lab measurements weighted by how much of the bed each one actually is. Treat them as a guide to which way a pairing moves, never as lab data.
RZR Rx 17 mains / Hyper-G-Soft 16L (1.25) crosses
Hyper-G-Soft 16L (1.25) mains / RZR Rx 17 crosses
Which goes dead first?
Estimated from tension loss, which is the only thing the database measures about ageing. This is when the bed stops playing the way you strung it, not when the string breaks.
RZR Rx 17
~27 hours of play
Hyper-G-Soft 16L (1.25)
~27 hours of play
Both strings in full
| String | Gauge | Price | Stiff lb/in | Loss % | Power % | Spin | Bite COF | Friction COF |
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| Gamma RZR Rx 17 Polyester | 17 | find | 185 | 29 | 88 | 4.8 | 0.448 | 0.094 |
| Solinco Hyper-G-Soft 16L (1.25) Polyester | 16L | $13.99 | 172 | 29 | 88 | 5.2 | 0.512 | 0.099 |
Add a third string RZR Rx 17 in full Hyper-G-Soft 16L (1.25) in full