In order to tie your shoes, there's a simple knot that almost all of us learn how to make when we're small children: a "criss-cross and tuck" part, followed by a "loop-and-pull" part. That simple ...

Shoes come untied? Professor Shoelace shows what knot to do 02:17. SACRAMENTO - Many of us remember the long-ago day we learned to tie our own shoes. "I learned how to tie my shoes when I was 3 ...

The difference between shoes tied with a balanced, neat, and self-tightening knot versus those tied with an unbalanced, sloppy, and loose knot, is all in how you make your first loop.

Studying two different ways to tie knots in shoe laces, one of which is weak and the other strong, the team found both those knots come undone, albeit at different time scales.

If you need to tie your shoes and haven't a second to spare, YouTube user Hank shows how to tie a workable knot so quickly it seems like magic. Strictly speaking, the above method is just a faster ...

Tying your shoes. You do it every day. But did you know you might actually be doing it wrong? It's true, according to a Ted Talk by Terry Moore. There are actually two shoe knots you can make with ...

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My kid needed new shoes but didn't want ones with laces. Somehow, at the age of 8, he still didn't know how to tie his shoes. ... He can tie a slip knot and rig a spider web out of string, ...