How to read the Combined 0–100 index

Official is the manufacturer or shop claim, remapped so a Butterfly 13.x figure can sit next to a Donic 10+ or a Tibhar 120. Community is user feel on the same axes, nudged by the 0–10 score and review count already on each product. Combined is a review-weighted blend of those two.

If a sheet has almost no reviews, Combined stays close to Official. If thousands of people have scored it, Combined is allowed to move. That is why Tenergy 05 and a new Omega can look closer on Official than on Combined.

Filters, compare, similar products and rankings all use Combined so a search for “fast inverted” does not mix scales. Open a product page to toggle Official / Community when you care which source moved the number.

A one-point gap is noise. A six-point gap on speed between Viscaria and Korbel is construction. Shop the gap size, not the integer.

Throw angle, tackiness, dwell and catapult are not extra sliders here. Brands do not publish them on one scale, and we will not invent a fourth axis from marketing copy. Those differences live in handwritten product and vs pages — Tenergy 05’s high throw versus MX-P’s direct finish is a sentence, not a fake number.

Hardness is a factory degree, not a 0–100 playing spec. Long pips often have no published sponge degree; that is a missing fact, not a zero-feel sheet.

Street prices are indicative EUR from European shops. They drift. ITTF codes and approval flags are catalogue facts for the version we list — a provincial Hurricane is not the commercial sheet with a different title.

The method page is the short version of this. This guide is the one to send someone who just asked “is 92 faster than 13.4?”