Five. Halfway through kindergarten I stopped being one of the kids who needed help with their laces.
Ugh, kindergarten.
When we would put our sneakers on, the kids who could tie their own shoes went on one side of the room, and the ones who needed help lined up on the other side and waited for the teacher. As the year went on, more and more kids learned to tie their shoes and went over to the other side. Toward the end of the year, I was the ONLY kid left on the needs help side. I was so mortified. I must have learned somehow between then and 1st grade. I could do the motions, but I had trouble holding everything tight enough that it would come together to actually make a knot.
The bunny thing was that the first loop is the tree and then the other lace is the bunny. The bunny goes around the tree, and then into the bunny’s burrow (pulling the lace through).
Between the ages of 4 and 5. I started kindergarten when I was 4 so it was some time after that.
I don’t know, but little. Probably 4ish, 5ish. My mom taught me the bunny ears method, and I was so jealous of my sister who tied her shoes using the “big kid” way. I so wanted to do that.
I remember watching her in the car tie her shoes, when the light went on and “Eureka!” smacked me in the head. I was so proud that I could tie my shoes like big kids.
4, my cousin who was 8 at the time taught me. I remember because I was so proud I had to run and show my parents what I could do!
My cousin’s a teacher now 
well age 4 or 5 for the incorrect way and
age 44 for the correct way!
See I have always tied my shoes a certain way and when I finished the bow would be mostly parallel to the shoe, not perpindicular across the shoe. Not that I ever noticed it to be truthful until my current wife pointed it out to me. So as I walked, eventually the shoe would come untied. Never thought too much about, just figured that is what shoes did and never paid attention to it.
Then when I go remarried to my current wife she was watching me–and she said something about ‘that’ is why your shoes are coming undone all the time. So she showed me how she tied them and it was exactly what I did–except right at the end, I flipped the sequence and thus the bow ended up parallel. After I made the bow, I would come UNDER the bow, around again to the bottom and through the loop and the bow ended
So started doing it correctly and now it is ingrained and best part is I now have no problems with my shoes coming undone!
“Learnt”?
What’s wrong with learnt?
I was probably four or five. I don’t remember needing help with my laces in kindergarten.
Rhymes with “burnt.” The Brits use both.
I know it was before kindergarten because I remember the teacher asking me to tie someone’s shoes before we went out to recess or something.
It seems like non-standard English to my eyes and ears. I would expect “learned” in place of “learnt.” I don’t mean any offense by this, it just seemed curious to me. If it is entirely traditional usage, than consider my ignorance fought.
It’s standard British. I see it a lot over here.
I don’t recall when I learned to tie my shoes, but I’m pretty sure it was late. I do distinctly remember when I finally figured out how to read an analogue clock. It was, embassingly enough, when I was in the sixth grade. My mom, who worked in a bank, had to stop at one of the branches, and told me she’d be done at 6:45. I remember looking a the clock they had in the lobby, which was a heavily varnished piece of driftwood with brass markings (but no numbers) trying to figure out how long it would be until 6:45, and suddenly the whole thing just made sense to me. It was a literal epiphany.
I was 4. I even have apic!
There were no digital clocks when I grew up, but I remember my father trying to teach me the concept of “a quarter to” something. I knew a quarter was 25 cents, so that must mean a quarter to something was 25 minutes to something. Took a while to figure that one out.
I don’t remember how old, but it was pretty old, because I do remember being at my aunt’s house and playing with a younger neighbor girl who must have been about 6 and my shoe came undone. I was in the front of the house and the adults were in the back. So I ran around the back to have it tied. When I came back she asked me where I had been and I told her there was a shoe-tying machine back there and all you had to do was put your foot in the box and it would tie your shoe for you. I couldn’t believe she believed that bullshit, but I had her going for at least a couple of minutes before I told her I was putting her on.
For the most part, my memory is crap. But I somehow remember being taught this skill in kindergarten.
I was in kindergarten, age 5.
5 or 6
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I was a slow kid.