Differnt types of pips

[Melody]

I want to try to play with pips.
What are the different types of pips
Are they as good as smooth rubbers

[Salva]

What are the different types of pips

You can say there are four types of pips

3 are ITTF LARC pips

1. Wide pips or Smash pips or stiff pips or hit pips :- These are pips incorrectly listed on ITTF LARC as "out" but also incorrectly known as short pips
2, Slim pips or flex pips or block pips :- These are pips incorrectly listed on ITTF LARC as "long"
3. Medium pips :- There is no such classification on ITTF LARC . These can be either wide pips that also act somewhat like slim pips or slim pips that act somewhat more like wide pips

The 4th type are actual long pips. These ar non-ITTF-pips because ITTF banned all long pips at the Birmingham 1977 BGM.
But ITTF cleverly continues to call ITTF slim pips as long pips to confuse and brainwash the clueless choppers (Not to mention as an insult because very few players know about this) .

ITTF classification of pips as "out" & "long" is also deliberately designed to confuse pips players.
Because as you may know all and any pips are pointing out & they are not inverted rubbers

Also you cannot call them that because both ITTF pips listed as out & long have the same maximum allowed pips length of 2.05 mm (was 2.00 mm before 2024 but was changed to 2.05 mm for purely political reasons not discussed here).

Long pips existed in ITTF table tennis until 1977 when ITTF banned all long pips by limiting the maximum allowed pip length of any pips to 2.00 mm

This is why the terms defined above in items 1 and 2 is appropriate for ITTF pips