09/01/2026
It is extremely challenging to effectively rate 67 strings tested over a period of 2+ years. The main challenges are:
Accounting for different racquets used.
Accounting for how your game changes over time.
Attempting to remember nuances in playability that may have been forgotten over time.
Dealing with varying testing conditions, like weather, altitude and opponent.
To overcome these challenges, I felt it best to simplify the rating system using scores out of 3 rather than out of 10. Scores with a base 10 require better consistency and nuance. Using our subjective experience, can we truly precisely, and consistently, judge a racquet's control, differentiating a 6/10 control racquet from a 7/10 control racquet? Due to the inherent and incredible adaptability of the human body, I think that it’s unlikely ANYONE could do so with any level of repeatability.
To simply the scoring system for the puny human psyche, I have elected to rate most things out of 3, as I think we can generally distinguish performance as “above average,” “around average,” and “below average.”
Further, all racquets are rated in completely stock form with perofrmance averaged over several different string setups tried at different tensions.
