The Best Way To Lace Your Shoes - Scientifically Proven

from the a-little-fun dept

Okay, I'll admit this isn't so much a tech story, but it's amusing enough that I felt it's worth a quick post. It seems that a mathematician spent some of his time figuring out what the best way to lace up your shoes is. It's apparently not the two most common methods (the "criss-cross" or the "straight") but a little-known and little-used method called the "bow tie method". It apparently uses the least amount of lace. While the other methods may be stronger, for those of us concerned with efficient use of lace space, the bow tie is the way to go (I've already changed my sneakers).
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    dorpus, 4 Dec 2002 @ 5:33pm

    depends on...

    if you want to be able to untie the knot, then yes. Navy SEALs are known to tie shoelaces in square knots when jumping from planes, because the wind would blow shoes right off. When removing shoes, they just cut the laces off with a K-Bar knife.

    And then there were the velcro shoes of the 1980s, which made "shoelaces obsolete". A true geek still wears those with no socks, so his ankles can buck and wobble (geek-gait).

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    LM, 5 Dec 2002 @ 11:34am

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    Conserve lace? I have plenty of lace, what I need is a knot that doesn't untie itself. These new round laces are terrible for that. I double-knot my shoes and they still work themselves loose every once in a while.

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    craft supplies for kids, 20 Sep 2010 @ 6:59am

    craft supplies for kids

    You have spent a lot of time and effort making sure that you chose the right tuxedo for his first school prom, now all you need to complete the picture are a good pair of black prom shoes for boys.

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