Head to head
Pacific X Force 17 vs Signum Pro Poly Speed Spin 1.28
X Force 17 leads on 5 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is ball bite, where Poly Speed Spin 1.28 is 63 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.
Measured, side by side
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.
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X Force 17431st
Poly Speed Spin 1.28417th
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X Force 17737th
Poly Speed Spin 1.28779th
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X Force 1752nd
Poly Speed Spin 1.288th
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X Force 17724th
Poly Speed Spin 1.28770th
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X Force 17494th
Poly Speed Spin 1.28553rd
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X Force 17203rd
Poly Speed Spin 1.28443rd
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X Force 17707th
Poly Speed Spin 1.28765th
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 X Force 17 at 52 lb
String Poly Speed Spin 1.28 at 45.0 lb 20.4 kg
Coming from Poly Speed Spin 1.28 at 52 lb
String X Force 17 at 64.1 lb 29.1 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.
X Force 17 mains / Poly Speed Spin 1.28 crosses
Poly Speed Spin 1.28 mains / X Force 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.
X Force 17
~22 hours of play
Poly Speed Spin 1.28
~19 hours of play
Both strings in full
| String | Gauge | Price | Stiff lb/in | Loss % | Power % | Spin | Bite COF | Friction COF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pacific X Force 17 Polyester | 17 | find | 226 | 36 | 86 | 4.5 | 0.367 | 0.081 |
| Signum Pro Poly Speed Spin 1.28 Polyester | — | find | 246 | 41 | 85 | 4.3 | 0.480 | 0.112 |
Add a third string X Force 17 in full Poly Speed Spin 1.28 in full