- I started pre-k at 4, and I learned before school started.
Using the two loops method, I’d say around 7. I’ve never figured out the other way, it either turns into a knot or comes undone.
I could read before I could tie my own shoes. 6 or 7, I think.
My dad taught me when I was five. A couple of kids in my kindergarten class could already tie their shoes, so I wanted to be able to also.
Obviously I was somehow deficient in this area. I had a great deal of difficulty learning right from left, too. Perhaps there’s some correlation. I did a lot of barefooting it in the summer. I wore slip on shoes sometimes. My mother would tie for me in the morning and I would hope that it would stay that way. It was really horrible.
First day of first grade! It was a crowning achievement. My dad took a picture of me in my new first-day-of-school-dress and tied-by-me sneakers to commemorate the occasion.
So, I was six.
I don’t remember learning to tie shoelaces but I know I did tie them by kindergarten (age 5.) No velcro in those days.
My daughter learned at age 3 1/2, when her daddy taught her. I kept telling him she was too young but she caught on in about 15 minutes flat. The only problem is he is left handed and taught her backwards by my way of thinking. She still ties them that way to this day. Daddy worship is powerful ju-ju.
Oh yes.
I wasn’t in school yet.
After frustrating attempts by my parents, Captain Kangaroo taught me with bunny ears, bunny holes and closing the bunny door.
I thought I was special, and all you b______s learned with bunny ears too!
dammit.
My dad had a thing about kids with runny noses and untied shoelaces, so he taught me to blow my own nose at one and tie my shoes at three. But by three, I was already showing a preference for left-handedness. So dad puzzled out how a lefty should tie a bow and taught me his method. Needless to say, I tie the funniest-looking, lopsided, most backwards bow ever. My parents later learned that it was best to show me how to do something right-handed and then let me figure out how to turn it around for myself. I’ve tried to retrain myself about the shoelaces, but the old way was too ingrained so I’m stuck with the funny looking bows.
Either when I was six, or never, depending on your point of view. I have never been able to coordinate the whole wrap one lace around your thumb, then do something else manuver. (nor make French knots when embroidering). Still use two loops like little kids do. My shoes stay on and don’t come untied, so I’m not going to stress about it.
I was six, and I was taught the bunny method by my best pal (back then) Nathan.
I was about 5 or 6, but the strange thing is I can remember exactly the moment, standing in our hall way in the old house and making my mother watch me do it. I can tell you exactly where I was standing and where she was standing and I know it was summer as the window was open next to us. Odd to remember that much detail.
I remember learning, but I have no idea how old I was. At a guess, I’d say 6.
I was 3.
I don’t have the slightest idea but I don’t remember when I couldn’t. So I’m going to claim I was born that way.
I was 4. Apparently I was very excited about it, and my mother was very proud, because I’ve got a picture of it.
Mother pstcat90 thinks as she takes the snapshot, “now if only she ever gets the concept the shoe should be ON the foot…”
LOL. Uhh. yea. 
I don’t remember exactly when. 6 or 7, I suppose. I do remember my mother getting impatient because when I tied the knot, the bow came out parallel to the length of the foot rather than across it. I didn’t figure out how to tie the knot correctly until I was in my 20s. I mentioned this to a friend’s wife, and it turned out she still had the same trouble, so I told her how to fix it.