list of best table tennis rubbers

Here is the list of the best table tennis rubbers in 2021-2022, what do you think?

The list includes:

1. Butterfly Tenergy 05
2. Butterfly Dignics 05
3. Butterfly Tenergy 64
4. Tibhar Evolution MX-P
5. Nittaku Fastarc G-1
6. DHS Hurricane3 H38
7. Joola Rhyzm-P
8. Yasaka Rakza Z
9. XIOM Vega Europe
10. Donic Bluefire M-2

"Best" is highly subjective, There simply is none.

Cheers
L-zr

Originally Posted by Airoc

Which is why such list is even more useless. There may be an underlying assumption that a "backhand" rubber should be softer than a "forehand" rubber, yet not too soft, hence the absence of some that would come to mind, etc.

So any list like that can be a personal statement, yet never a basis for serious discussion.

Any long pips or antispin player would surely agree anyway

And if, by highly subjective criteria, I have found MY personal favourite or best rubber for MY backhand, why name the also-rans?

I'm FH dominant, but I see no reason to have different rubbers on each side, the one reason would be if I ever wanted to use BTY (waaaay expensive...) and was too cheap to do both sides...

Cheers
L-zr

Purely subjective and too manynto enumerate.

This post is probably very helpful, but only to a small set of players: strongly skilled, non sponsored, non professionals with deep pockets 😉.

There seem to me three main problems:
— These rubbers are all fairly to very expensive (all at least £35) — this automatically rules out suitability for lots of players. He also doesn’t address their durability in all his posts.

— The rubbers mainly fit two types: very bouncy 45°-50° tensors and sticky tensors/hybrid rubbers. Many of these are inappropriate for players who don’t play a purely inverted attacking style on backhand. What if players like softer rubbers or want to chop? Some are more moderate or softer but most are the MXP type.

— The whole ‘backhand rubbers’ thing. The suitability of certain rubbers for forehand or backhand is subjective and arguably makes no sense — after all loads of players, amateur and pro, use the same rubber on both sides. He also spends his entire ‘forehand rubber’ article arguing for very low throwing forehand rubbers (which seems counter intuitive since basically everyone want topspin consistency on forehand).

It’s a bit shaky, treating an extremely subjective topic as a matter of objective fact.

However, this list does seem to broadly reflect what offensive players on these forums seem to like to play with (or at the very least provides good alternatives/copies of the elite equipment the pros use).

Fair enough to him for actually making a list and justifying his choices as well tbf. I think his website’s great, even if I don’t know anything.