Head to head

Gamma TNT2 Touch 16 vs Prince Premier W/Softflex 16

They split the measurements 3–3. The widest gap is ball bite, where Premier W/Softflex 16 is 11 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Gamma

TNT2 Touch 16

Nylon · 16 ga

Prince

Premier W/Softflex 16

Nylon · 16 ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
15416th pct
1426th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
2638th pct
2536th pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
9381st pct
9276th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
3.416th pct
3.314th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.42037th pct
0.43749th pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.12586th pct
0.13489th pct

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.

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 TNT2 Touch 16 at 52 lb

String Premier W/Softflex 16 at 56.9 lb 25.8 kg

Coming from Premier W/Softflex 16 at 52 lb

String TNT2 Touch 16 at 47.5 lb 21.5 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.

TNT2 Touch 16 mains / Premier W/Softflex 16 crosses

Stiffness11th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss38th pct · 1 measured
Energy return80th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential15th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite39th pct · 1 measured
String friction87th pct · 1 measured

Premier W/Softflex 16 mains / TNT2 Touch 16 crosses

Stiffness10th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss37th pct · 1 measured
Energy return80th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential15th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite47th pct · 1 measured
String friction88th pct · 1 measured

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.

TNT2 Touch 16

~29 hours of play

Premier W/Softflex 16

~29 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Gamma TNT2 Touch 16 Nylon16find15426933.40.4200.125
Prince Premier W/Softflex 16 Nylon16find14225923.30.4370.134

Add a third string TNT2 Touch 16 in full Premier W/Softflex 16 in full