# How do You Tie Yours

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-tie-yours/258595>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 6, 2004, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-tie-yours/258595 "2004-08-06T11:02:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2004, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-tie-yours/258595/21 "2004-08-07T00:08:17Z")

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And then we have the sinister “_double bow_” that prevents them from coming untied…

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**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2004, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-tie-yours/258595/22 "2004-08-07T01:40:41Z")

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> [@Arch Trout](#):
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> If there’s another stranger method that results in something else sitting on your shoe I’ve not heard of it.

My Dad gets three loops when finished, instead of the standard two.

I don’t know how he does it though.

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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2004, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-tie-yours/258595/23 "2004-08-07T02:08:44Z")

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> [@ataraxy22](#):
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> I Also, being left-handed, I could never follow what my right-handed “teachers” were doing.

I think that’s why I never have been able to use just one loop. My motor skills are decent, but I’m _terrible_ at reversing anything. I get lost on the way home from places I got directions to; I can’t mimic what someone does with their right hand (learning how to crochet was horrible.) Now, had a leftie tried to teach me to tie my shoes, then maybe I would have figured it out…but my dad, another leftie, can’t do the one loop method either.

**Colophon** the bunny-ear method is on the same site that Lsura [linked to](http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/knot2.htm). It doesn’t come untied very often if you pull the knots tight. Oh, and if you don’t do what it says (not to) in the warning box at the bottom.

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**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2004, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-tie-yours/258595/24 "2004-08-07T02:53:53Z")

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I use the two loop method, although my mom watched me do it once and told me I do it backwards. I’m not sure what she meant by that. I had never heard of the bunny ear method until I met my husband. He still uses it. He’s fifty, I’m 48, and we both grew up in the midwest USA. He’s more of a city kid than I am, if that makes any difference. Not to mention the fact that his mom grew up in a boarding home. I don’t know if that has anything to do with it, since I never saw her tie her shoes.

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