I've been tying my shoes using the Ian knot for years (decades??) now. Makes your laces sit a bit funny compared to regular, but my shoes never come untied by accident. Highly recommend trying it out if you have this problem even occasionally. Once you have the muscle memory down, it's a nice minor life upgrade.

▲ rahimnathwani 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

  Makes your laces sit a bit funny compared to regular

The 'sit a bit funny' issue is the classic symptom of 'the granny knot'.

If you have inadvertently been tying granny knots, you may notice:

1) Instead of the bows hanging to the sides, they naturally want to hang along the length of your show (one pointing diagonally away from you, and the other diagonally towards you).

2) Your shoelaces get undone often, unless you do a double knot.

The fix (whether you tie your bow using the regular way, bunny ears, or Ian Knot) is to reverse the direction of your initial knot.

If you watch this video I made, you will see that the Ian Knot (when done according to the instructions on Ian's site) results in the laces sit just how they should: https://youtu.be/JaBmehtalAY

	▲	globular-toast 28 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> The fix (whether you tie your bow using the regular way, bunny ears, or Ian Knot) is to reverse the direction of your initial knot. Far too many people say that you need to reverse the direction of your main knot. This also works, of course, but it's way more difficult to unlearn then relearn the main knot. Far easier to change the direction of the initial knot. When I first learn the Ian Knot I quickly discovered I'd learnt it "backwards". So I reversed the initial knot and I've been tying it that way for close to 20 years now.

▲ mcv 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I never mastered the most common single loop method; it never made sense to me to have an asymmetrical way to tie a symmetrical knot, so I used the bunny ears with two loops, until I learned about the Ian knot with zero loops, and it's a very easy and quick way to tie your shoes.

The resulting knot is the same with all of them, however. Either the regular knot or the granny knot, depending on how you do them.

▲ justinsaccount 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The end result is the same as the regular way of tying it. perhaps you are doing a https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/crossedianknot.htm by mistake

	▲	hinkley 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		As a way to keep kids from accidentally making a granny knot instead, which will not stay tied, it's pretty decent.