# What happened to my undersized yos?

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**Created:** [June 7, 2019, 11:42pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-happened-to-my-undersized-yos/303547 "2019-06-07T23:42:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 7, 2019, 11:48pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-happened-to-my-undersized-yos/303547/3 "2019-06-07T23:48:15Z")

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Yeah see

> [@Recommended "Best" Undersized Yo-Yo 2018?](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/recommended-best-undersized-yo-yo-2018/292159/2):
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> In my humble opinion, conceptually there are three tiers of “undersized” based on diameter: REALLY tiny, made entirely of very heavy metals like stainless steel or brass. 25mm-30mm diameter or less. This is getting into serious novelty throw territory. Examples: Heist, Flea, Aoda Little. Undersize, 31mm-49mm diameter – to me, this is “mainstream” undersized today. Tons of examples, C3 Token, TopYo Photon, Mini-Star 2. Moderately undersize, basically a 2010 idea of diameter and width, mo…

> the typical / average diameter of a yo-yo today is “Shutter diameter” or 56mm, but sometimes even more. The Horizon is 59mm.

I expect that to skew a tiny bit larger over time, as well… I don’t think we’ll get to Diabolo size all the time though, I do think it will level out maybe at the Horizon diameter.

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