Studying two different ways to tie knots in shoe laces, one of which is weak and the other strong, the team found both those knots come undone, albeit at different time scales.

SACRAMENTO - Many of us remember the long-ago day we learned to tie our own shoes. "I learned how to tie my shoes when I was 3 years old," said Kimberly Gomez Santos, a senior at Sacramento State.

Let’s start with a simple experiment we can do together, right here and right now, using only the loosened laces on your shoe. Begin by tying one of the most useful of all knots, the square knot.

The impact of the shoe hitting the ground deforms the knot, reducing the friction that the string feels and making it easier to slide out. The repeated impacting and deforming, combined with the ...

We've shown you a few ways to tie your shoes more efficiently, but if you're looking for a super-speedy way to get your shoes on and out the door, the Ian Knot is a super-fast method that will ...

Tying your shoes. You do it every day. But did you know you might actually be doing it wrong? It's true, according to a Ted Talk by Terry Moore. There are actually two shoe knots you can make with ...

In order to tie your shoes, there's a simple knot that almost all of us learn how to make when we're small children: a "criss-cross and tuck" part, followed by a "loop-and-pull" part. That simple ...

The difference between shoes tied with a balanced, neat, and self-tightening knot versus those tied with an unbalanced, sloppy, and loose knot, is all in how you make your first loop.

After the shoe is put on the end marked A, Fig. 2, is laid back out of the way, as shown in the illustration. The cross loops from the bottom up are then tightened till the top loop C is reached.

Somehow, my child has reached the age of 8, about to start third grade, and he doesn't know how to tie his shoes. Twenty years ago, most kindergarten teachers taught children to tie their laces.