Gamma TNT2 Touch 16 vs Prince Premier LT 18

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.

• More spin and shape

  TNT2 Touch 16597th

  Premier LT 18625th

• Easier on my arm

  TNT2 Touch 16148th

  Premier LT 18157th

• More control, less launch

  TNT2 Touch 16688th

  Premier LT 18678th

• More power and depth

  TNT2 Touch 16116th

  Premier LT 18160th

• Plays the same for longer

  TNT2 Touch 16280th

  Premier LT 18302nd

• Lasts longer before it breaks

  TNT2 Touch 16573rd

  Premier LT 18710th

• Best feel and touch

  TNT2 Touch 16145th

  Premier LT 18189th

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.

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.

Open this in the hybrid builder

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.

Both strings in full

Add a third string TNT2 Touch 16 in full Premier LT 18 in full