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Head to head

Luxilon Big Banger Ace 18 (1.12) vs Luxilon Big Banger Timo 17 (1.22)

They split the measurements 3–3. The widest gap is ball bite, where Big Banger Ace 18 (1.12) is 23 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Luxilon

Big Banger Ace 18 (1.12)

Polyester · 18 ga

Luxilon

Big Banger Timo 17 (1.22)

Polyester · 17 ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
20471st pct
20775th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
4680th pct
4475th pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
8524th pct
8628th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
4.030th pct
3.927th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.41936th pct
0.38214th pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.10671st pct
0.09861st 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 Big Banger Ace 18 (1.12) at 52 lb

String Big Banger Timo 17 (1.22) at 48.3 lb 21.9 kg

Coming from Big Banger Timo 17 (1.22) at 52 lb

String Big Banger Ace 18 (1.12) at 56.5 lb 25.6 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.

Big Banger Ace 18 (1.12) mains / Big Banger Timo 17 (1.22) crosses

Stiffness73rd pct · 1 measured
Tension loss78th pct · 1 measured
Energy return26th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential29th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite32nd pct · 1 measured
String friction69th pct · 1 measured

Big Banger Timo 17 (1.22) mains / Big Banger Ace 18 (1.12) crosses

Stiffness73rd pct · 1 measured
Tension loss76th pct · 1 measured
Energy return26th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential29th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite17th pct · 1 measured
String friction63rd 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.

Big Banger Ace 18 (1.12)

~16 hours of play

Big Banger Timo 17 (1.22)

~18 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Luxilon Big Banger Ace 18 (1.12) Polyester18find20446854.00.4190.106
Luxilon Big Banger Timo 17 (1.22) Polyester17find20744863.90.3820.098

Add a third string Big Banger Ace 18 (1.12) in full Big Banger Timo 17 (1.22) in full