[buzzy_hacker]

> A few years ago, I found out I'd been tying my shoes wrong for my entire life. I thought laces came undone easily and didn't usually look very good. At least that's how mine were, and I never paid much attention to anyone else's. It took a couple of weeks to re-train my hands but now I have bows in my laces that look good and rarely come undone.

I’m equally interested in this as the HTML. Any clue what the author is referring to?

[js2]

Lucky you! [1]

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/

Specifically:

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/grannyknot.htm

An HN favorite:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=fieggen.com

1. https://xkcd.com/1053/

[SpaceNugget]

Likely the author was tying granny knots instead of slipped/bowed reef knots

If your first cross is left over right you need to make your second cross right over left, or vice versa. I found an image showing the difference for the un-slipped version, but it's the same with a bow: http://www.tikalon.com/blog/2020/square_granny_knots.png

Granny knots untie themselves and the bow will end up perpendicular to the knot instead of parallel.

[aparks517]

Aw... you didn't read to the end ;)

> The right way to tie your shoes is with a square knot. It's easy to confuse this with the granny knot, which is the wrong way. The square knot is a simple and sound knot with many uses. The granny knot is an unsound knot whose only known uses are to make your shoelaces look crooked and to trip you.

[jjice]

Possibly the Ian knot https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot.htm

You look goofy trying to relearn to tie your shoes, but it really is fast and sturdy.

[wccrawford]

It was apparently the square knot, but I'm a big fan of the Ian knot. I learned it about a year ago and at the very least, tying my shoes is more fun now. I'm not yet convinced it's better than the old-school method, but it looks impressive when you do it and it's more fun.

[MindTwister]

What immediately came to mind for me was this (short) Ted talk https://youtu.be/zAFcV7zuUDA

[exyi]

Not sure what he's referring to, I'm not familiar with the parallel posts. I just do the "rotate around the loop" part twice. I have had untied shoelace approximately twice in the last 5 years.