I'm a big fan of Ian's secure shoelace knot, which I use all of the time on my hiking boots and hockey skates:<p><a href="http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/secureknot.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/secureknot.htm</a><p>Easy to tie, easy to untie, and I've never had it slip or come untied on its own.
Better video via the link I submitted a year ago:
<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=468063" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=468063</a><p>This item has also shown up several times before:<p><a href="http://searchyc.com/shoelace" rel="nofollow">http://searchyc.com/shoelace</a><p>It's one of the methods I use to assess how to present things:<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1059659" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1059659</a><p>It lets me know if someone will like puzzles for their own sake, or if "everything has to have a use."
My mother taught me to tie my shoes just like her mother had taught her once upon a time, and they both tied granny knots, so I learned no other way to tie my shoes.<p>A friend of mine found this webpage a few years ago, and was very excited to tell me and all of our friends about it, and I finally learned how to tie my shoes properly.<p>30 years of tying my shoes the bad way. 30 years of sometimes slipping laces and shoes come undone. Goddamnit mom.
I prefer Ian's Secure Knot. I've been using this for 2-3 years on my shoes.<p>The knot doesn't come out, even with leather thong-type laces. Yet a single tug on the end releases the whole knot (unlike traditional "double knots").
I've been tying my shoes this way for years and years. My uncle taught me when I was young, and now I cannot tie them the normal way anymore. It's also a nice party trick to challenge somebody to a "shoe tying race."
To stay in a domestic mood: How to fold a T-shirt in two seconds, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An0mFZ3enhM" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An0mFZ3enhM</a>
i've been using this knot for years, and it's great. i dream of some day teaching my kids to tie their shoes with this knot, and then having them explain to the other kids in class why their system trumps the standard methods.
When I was 3 I sat on our back step all afternoon trying to tie my shoes because my older brother knew how.<p>I use this technique - I figured this was the standard way.
That knot resembles the clove hitch, which is a very versatile hitch to attach a section of rope to an object. I think learning a few basic knots is an extremely useful life skill.<p>Just knowing how to tie bowline, double bowline and a few hitches will make you a more useful person.
Ok, I went through the page quickly and was kind of wondering what was so special about the knot and what it was doing here.<p>Then, I tried it, and it <i>is</i> pretty cool! It feels like one step is missing when you're done.
I've been using this for years, for anything that requires this sort of knot. I'm disappointed that nobody ever comments on how quickly I can tie my shoes (say, after a TSA checkpoint).
I've been using Lock Laces on all my athletic shoes for over 5 years now. Ridiculously convenient.
<a href="http://locklaces.com/" rel="nofollow">http://locklaces.com/</a>