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How to Tie Shoes

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If you've mastered the Internet, it's safe to assume that you've mastered your shoe-tying skills. But here's how to explain the task to your kids.

Difficulty: Easy
Instructions

Things You'll Need:

  1. Step 1

    Hold one end of each shoelace in each hand.

  2. Step 2

    Cross them, making an X.

  3. Step 3

    Pass one end of the shoelace under the other.

  4. Step 4

    Pull tight.

  5. Step 5

    Fold one shoelace in half while holding laces taut.

  6. Step 6

    Wrap the other end around the folded end.

  7. Step 7

    Grasp it in the middle after pulling it around the folded end.

  8. Step 8

    Bend it into a flat loop and pull through, making a bow.

  9. Step 9

    Repeat with other shoe.

Tips & Warnings
  • To make a double knot, wrap one loop over the other and pull through.
  • Riding a bicycle with untied shoes can be disastrous.

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on 8/21/2009 Thanks to you I am now on my way to being free of my lifelong dependency on velcro straps(which admittedly also took me some time to master). Soon, after some intensive practice I hope to be a "shoe tier extraordinare," and no longer the laughingstock among my co-workers at the department store where I am on the 25 year training plan, as an apprentice greeter.

Articles like these are immensely valuable to me and I feel it is incumbent upon me to always leave positive comments. See my comments under "How to Boil Water."

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on 8/10/2008 Id rather tie two knots.

Cobbler said

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on 4/28/2008 Here's a great way to keep the laces tied and yet make them easy to untie when you want.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1015661/never_slip_shoe_knot/

Cobbler said

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on 4/28/2008 Heres a great way to keep the knot tied and yet make it easy to untie when you want to.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1015661/never_slip_shoe_knot/

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on 12/16/2005 Be sure that you are tying a square knot and not a granny knot.
A granny knot will come loose. About 40% of the population unwittingly makes this knot. A square knot will stay tight and won't require making a double knot. To tell if you are square or granny pull out the loops of your bow. A square knot will be right over left/left over right or vise versa.

Also the bows of a square knot lay across the shoe, and the granny will try to be in line with the shoe.

To correct this problem reverse the direction you do the first half of your knot. Tie your bow the way you normally do. Try it!

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