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Spending a year in shackles + being shackled during combat gives a whole new meaning to "ring rust".
No plot spoilers below but from the books.
Jaime thinks while fighting Brienne that among the living, GreatJon Umber and both Clegane brothers are stronger than him. At another point he thinks that he'd rather not ever have to fight the Hound even though he thinks he could probably take the Mountain
That bit is particularly interesting because in the show he tells Brienne that only three men alive could beat him. The books suggest Sandor Clegane to be one of those three.
So even with all his ego and arrogance, Jaime still thinks even in his prime there's a good chance he'd die fighting Sandor.
Gotta vote Hound.
They never directly link Jaime's thoughts to those three men. What he says in the show: "There are three men in the kingdoms that might have a chance against me. You aren't one of them (Brienne)." In the books, he thinks: Greatjon John Umber and Lyle Crakehall are stronger than him, and both Clegane brothers. Later he thinks to himself that despite Lyle being strong, Sandor "was much quicker, and fought with a savagery that Lyle could not hope to match".
It's pretty clear that of all the living men, Jaime considers Sandor to be an equal on healthy terms.