H3 Neo is probably the most played rubber on the planet. I think it's very easy to use and especially good for technique learning since the rubber does not a lot itself, it's not bouncy or something like that, you have to do proper strokes if you want the ball to land on the table. Tenergy and so on let's you do shitty strokes while stile making an okayish ball. that's not what you want when learning strokes.
source: me, having played many different rubbers and being a youth coach.
H3n is great for learning. But there are also excellent reasons to start with euro/jap rubbers. Sure, modern euro/jap rubbers like tenergy can make it deceptively easy to give speed to the ball. But no rubber will spin the ball for you. That remains the hard, and most important part no matter what equipment you start on.
some advantages of starting with Euro/Jap rubbers (no need to go for tenergy right away; you can do like DerEchte suggests and look for a racket at a local club; or go with any of Vega Intro, Vega Euro, Karis M (and such))
- 1: feel. Softer sponges and topsheets on Euro/Jap rubbers make it much easier to feel the contact between the ball and the blade, which gives you extremely valuable feedback on the quality of your stroke.
- 2: consistency between bh/fh; most players won't do great with a rubber like H3 Neo on the backhand, and will prefer a euro/jap rubber on that wing. So you'd be looking at h3 Neo forehand, and euro/jap backhand. The OP mentions that their backhand is currently stronger than their forehand. One major advantage of going with 2 identical or very similar rubbers for Fh/BH when you start out is that it makes it easier to keep track of your progress on each side. The feel and properties being more similar, you can be confident that major differences in what you can do on each side is a function of technique and stroke, not of equipment. For the same reason, consistent rubber behavior on both sides makes it easier to develop a good understanding of the respective advantages and disadvantages of BH vs FH strokes.
There are also great reasons for going with something like h3 NEO ON forehand; but it's not an obvious matter either way.