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Head to head

Klip Legend 16 Uncoated vs Wilson Natural Gut 16

They split the measurements 3–3. The widest gap is ball bite, where Legend 16 Uncoated is 7 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Klip

Legend 16 Uncoated

Gut · 16 ga

Wilson

Natural Gut 16

Gut · 16 ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
1012nd pct
972nd pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
154th pct
179th pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
9699th pct
9598th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
1.20th pct
1.30th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.3708th pct
0.3301st pct
Snapback lower = strings slide and snap back
0.298100th pct
0.245100th pct

Bars are percentile against all 788 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 Legend 16 Uncoated at 52 lb

String Natural Gut 16 at 70.0 lb 31.8 kg

Clamped — the proportional answer was 70.7 lb, outside what most frames are rated for. These two are too far apart in stiffness to match by tension alone.

Coming from Natural Gut 16 at 52 lb

String Legend 16 Uncoated at 39.1 lb 17.7 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.

Legend 16 Uncoated mains / Natural Gut 16 crosses

Stiffness2nd pct · 1 measured
Tension loss7th pct · 1 measured
Energy return98th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential0th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite6th pct · 1 measured
Snapback100th pct · 1 measured

Natural Gut 16 mains / Legend 16 Uncoated crosses

Stiffness2nd pct · 1 measured
Tension loss7th pct · 1 measured
Energy return98th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential0th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite2nd pct · 1 measured
Snapback100th 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.

Legend 16 Uncoated

~39 hours of play

Natural Gut 16

~37 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugeStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFSnap COF
Klip Legend 16 Uncoated Gut1610115961.20.3700.298
Wilson Natural Gut 16 Gut169717951.30.3300.245

Add a third string Legend 16 Uncoated in full Natural Gut 16 in full