This is a great knot. It was easy to learn, but took me a while to speed it up. Now I can tie my shoelaces in about half the time it takes anyone else. Extremely useful for people of all ages.

this guy got me all turnt up about tying my shoes

I found your book when I was 13 years old (23 now). When I came across the Ian knot, I was dumbfounded that I had been taught this inept "bunny ears" crap all my life. Has helped me , and will continue to for the rest of my life. Thanks Ian. -Ian

I sat here for 20 minutes trying to figure it out and I have done it! I feel reborn.

I think the problem is I learned one technique while so young that I just stuck with it and never questioned it since. This is awesome and I'll use this from now on :) But as they say, old habits die hard and the muscle memory makes it super hard to learn this and even more make it the standard.

I just watched a 3 minute tutorial on tying shoes and I'm an adult. The fucked up thing is that I actually learned something. I'm going outside.

I haven't broken a shoelace in almost 20 years either, but my theory is that the quality of materials used in shoelaces has improved. On the other hand, the quality of shoes has dropped dramatically, and the days of replacing shoe laces are just about done. Great video, and a new knot to add to my repertoire, thanks!

I took almost half an hour to get this. It was not easy for me, since after 29 years i did it wrong. Now i cannot believe how simple this is... Im happy! Lol Thanks Ian!

I have been using the two loop knot for the past 16 years. Time to give this a go.

I'm sitting in front of my computer with no need to go outside, but now I'll go and grab my shoes just so I can do this and amaze myself.

To tie each shoelace like this, in total it'll take maybe 5 seconds, we tie our shoelaces maybe 2 or 3 times a day, 15 seconds all in. Normal shoelace tie technique will maybe take 10 seconds, so 30 seconds in total every day of tying your shoelaces using the usual method. So you save 15 seconds each day with the Ian Knot. 105 seconds a week or 5,460 seconds a year, over an average lifetime of 80 years, that's 436,800 seconds or 121 hours and 20 minutes or just over 5 solid days of your life that you will free up by using this knot instead of the alternatives. In 5 days you could go on the best vacation ever just by not wasting those seconds looping the loop. If we are to assume that all 1.24 million viewers of this video are now using this knot then that's 6.2 million days of peoples lives saved or 17 thousand years! Well done, sir! Worth it!

So, you are the master behind this amazing shoelace knot! I bow down before you!

I've been tying my laces like this ever since I first saw this video a few years ago. Thanks Professor Shoelace!

Great tutorial! I've always been terrible at tying my shoes in the "traditional" way... This one is so much simpler for me! The tutorial was completely fine, the only thing that could possibly be causing some people problems is the fact that the angle is facing the shoe, which is not how you would be tying a shoe... But I was still able to learn regardless!

Wow, my original "Ian Knot" video has just passed one million views! Thanks everyone for watching and sharing.

This changed my life. You just cut 40 seconds off my day. Multiply that by another 60 years and you pretty much just added months on my life. Are you a hero

Ian, I do a lot of sports and sick of having to stop the action all the time to re-tie my shoelaces. THANK YOU FOR THIS!

Here after Get set fly funda Thanks this is good 😁

Thank you Ian, for demonstrating and naming this shoe lacing method : ). I've learned it a few days ago from some other bloke on KZfaq, but he had no name for the knot making it harder to refer to, and your explanation is better and will eliminate my fails. I know understand the knot better! Also, thank you for naming the many advantages. It makes me happy to start 2016, at age 42, with this new skill. Better late than never! And I will teach my kids, too. One (8) knows how to using the something around the Tree method, but his football shoe laces (only laced shoes he owns, we are velcro believers honestly) are a bit short to easily use it. Now you've saved me the trouble and expense of bying new, longer laces! Our youngest (5) has yet to learn tying her shoes. No laced shoes for her, yet. Maybe she'll get some laced Wheelies for her birthday... that would be a brilliant moment to start learning. The easy way straight away! I'll also share your vlog with parents and teachers I know. It is a wonderful idea for parents and kids to learn this together, don't you think? PS For precision (interesting, how after 25 takes this thought has not yet crossed your mind, also makes me wonder, what went wrong/differently in those), I'd have to say it is not the Ian Knot; rather, something like the Ian Lace. Following your logic at the end of the vlog, Bunny, Tree and Ian Lacing all produce the exact same Knot. My dad (RIP) was a mathematician, I generally don't have a clue having studied psychology myself, but sometimes a bit of his thoroughness seeps through me LOL. Dad would surely have loved what you did here! Thanks again, I think what you did is awesome : D

I've been using this knot for ages now, and it's really great. I remember finding your site many years ago and learning the knot from a video - I still have the "Ian knot - the world's fastest shoelace knot" stuck in my mind from watching the video back then. I taught it to my brother when he was learning to tie his shoelaces, and he found it much easier to learn than other knots. It's also fun to show to other people; it's amazing how much you can wow someone by tying one's shoes.

The 'slow version' of this needs to be done at 1/10th the speed.

I still can't do it

I was looking for away to tie my shoe laces & end up with this amazing artist !..shoes are lucky to have u prof ..😉

Hi Ian, I was looking for how to tie shoelaces secure and found your website. The "Ian-Knot" has excited me and I've learned it immediately. I'm 71 years old n April: you never stop learning... ;-) many thanks and best regards

+nrsparks Great that you were taught the *best* way to tie shoelaces first time round. Much easier than trying to re-learn how to tie in later life.

Nice, haha, before this, I was so embarrassed when I tied my shoes slowly in school.

I did it, Shoelace! Guys, just take your time, pause the video, don't go fast! Thanks Professor!

Best video I have seen so far on this knot. I watched a bunch trying to figure out how to do the knot and was finally able to learn using yours

I am here after getsetfly funda showed us your video.

I'm using this knot since I'm nine years old. It's so much faster.

I discovered this way of tying my shoelaces independently, and many people have told me it's not "right". Thanks for your help in shutting them up!

I've had this video sitting in my Watch Later playlist for around 6 years now... I think it's time I learnt how to do it!

MASTERED IT!!!

It would be much easier for us to copy what you're doing if the video was from your perspective (camera over your shoulder) rather than having the camera in front of you.

you changed my life in 3 minutes. Seriously, no irony.

This took me about 20 minutes of constant failing following the instructions, step by step. I kept at it and then it "clicked." Now I can skip the "steps" and do it just as smoothly as this video. My life is changed.

I'm here after getsetfly funda Indian youTube channel😉

MY WHOLE LIE IS A FUCKING LIFE

The instructions and angle simply are not enough, shocked this video is so highly rated.

Man, you would not believe the amount of time I've spent looking for a symmetrical shoelace knot. Thank you very much for this video, finally I have a symmetrical knot.

I'm here after apna getsetfly funda suggested it

I feel so dumb. I'm confused on how to do this... blurghhh.

This was far more helpful than any expanation i've been given cause I actually learnt something.

Been using this technique for 5 years never let me down thanks🔥

I don't remember teaching anyone my knot O_o

Who come from get set fly video?

OH MY GOD IAN FIEGGEN IS THE BEST. THIS IS INSANE. also I read like all of your websites and let me say: oh yeah that website for shoelaces is categorized and organized. Please don’t stop working hard!

Thank you!i ve tried so many times to teach my autistic son how to tie a knot and this helped us reduce the stress of trying the old method a million times and still he had problems with it.but now.i can say he'got it.thanks to you!

Every time I can't tie knots, I need more angles to see it, what are you doing? how do they stay as loops? why do they keep falling apart! Every time I try it, they just keep flinging themselves out of the knot.

Richard Branson?

Since watching this video some years ago, this is the way I tie my shoe laces on my sneakers. Thanks Professor Ian! I’m a big fan of your tying methods and especially the Ian Knot. 😉

OMG! I'm 35 and today I learned HOW to tie my shoes! Thank You! I'm gonna teach my children to tie shoes like this! Wooooow!

Hi iam come here from getsetfly funda a indian

that may well be the hardest knot in human history, who the hell would do that...

hey, i watched this video and learned this method about 6 or 7 years ago. i had to come back to thank you for saving me time and teaching me this superior way of tying shoelaces. i’ve forgotten the “normal” way by now

Life changing video..thank u very much.it took 32 years to find a suitable knot for my shoes.i was even hurt with my traditional knots during my work hours .Actually i wud say it is Life saving video rather than life changing .

you goes too fast and you need to put it in slow motion please

SORCERY!

After 40 years of bunny ears, I thought there had to be something better. I tried the one loop knot for two weeks, but my OCD can't handle the fact it's asymmetrical. Thank you for sharing the Ian knot! It took me 5 minutes to get decently fast at it.

I've tied my shoelaces extremely wrong for 30 years. This knot is superb in every way.

Thanks I recently lost all memory of toeing shoes I'm 9000000 yes old and I just remembered thanks YOLO SWAG MONEY BISHES

I saw this in a runner's magazine once, learned to do it and never looked back!

60 freaking years of doing the "bunny around the tree" knot until I just learned this today. And all these years I thought I was smart!

you deserve a nobel prize for this

As a right handed parent struggling to teach a lefty how to tie, I've found your video very helpful. No trouble seeing what you were doing and I thank you for posting.

Ian, I have watched you for a few years now. You continue to impress me. I have been frustrated by my typical knots coming loose, especially with paracord lacing. I'm hoping that your knot wil make life easier...

I think I learned this knot from reddit when I was 15 (26 now) can’t even imagine the amount of time I’ve saved through the years and how much I’ll save in the future!

Thank you omg, i was struggling to the point that i stuck with the normal way but when i watched this video it helped me so much , thank you!

Brilliantly simple. Simply brilliant!

I never actually learned the "normal knot" always thought it was too complicated. I always did the bunny ears method until I found this video around 8 years ago. Now I'm 18 and I can't express how much the Ian knot helped me.

As an autistic child, I never learned how to tie my shoes, and my parents quickly gave up trying to teach me the bunny ears method. I shamefully admitted I'd probably never learn how to. Over 20 years later I found a video showing the Ian knot and could do it after about half an hour of practice. I find it much easier and knots finally make sense to me! Thank you for sharing all this

Thank you for the webpage about the Ian Knot. My laces have never slipped once I understood balanced vs unbalanced granny knots.

you've given me this new love for shoelaces♥♥♥ im obsessed for some reason

Thank you Professor Shoelace!

I have now changed the way I tie my shoelaces, thanks.

This is ace when I show people they think of it more like a magic trick, thanks Ian:)

Sometimes you get to that stage in life where you say I'm gonna learn to tie my shoe differently. Well today is that day!😂 👍😎 Got it after a few goes.

It took me a couple minutes but I've got it now! You learn something new everyday, even if it's as basic as tying a shoelace.

Thank you! I've been trying to figure it out, and this made it so much easier!

Thank you for teaching me something new. -From a guy in New York =)

Why would anyone downvote this video?? It's awesome!

Thank you, thank you, thank you...a million times thank you!! My son got it down on his 3rd try & after a couple minutes, he was tying with his eyes closed. He said he won't be embarrassed tying his shoes in front of friends anymore.

Wow, thankyou. I learned the Ian Knot, it is a skill I can use everyday.

My 9 year old son just learned how tie his shoes laces my watching the video thank you so much 😊

Thanks, Professor Shoelace!

Holy shoelaces Bateman! I got it!!!! Only took me two tries. I didn't get it the first time because my laces were bent the same direction. I'm going to try and teach my toddler.

You Sir are a hero.

Well I coulodn't figure it out through this video, nor from the site. What really helped me was the GIF. image on his website. This knot is awesome!

I got the best understanding of your method at 2:16. By the way, thank you for your teaching.

The first shoelace I ever tied! :D I can't even do the easiest ones. Found them too complicated. Can only do the Ian Knot. xDD I've never been taught how to tie my shoelaces when I was younger. I'm so glad I found this video!

I've been using the Ian knot since 1995, IIRC. I found an animated tutorial for it on a BBS while in the US Navy stationed in Japan. All of my kids use it, too. So much easier, I can tie it in complete darkness. Also, if you double knot it, it doesn't come loose, but can be untied just by pulling one end (aglet). Thanks!

Just come across your videos and I can't believe I've been tying my shoe laces the wrong way most of my life! As they always come undone! I will be trying this from now on. Thank you ✨

This dude changed my life🤣😂👞 Thank you for making such an amazing 💓 video .

Love it! Thanks very much Professor! :D

I never learned how to tie shoes because I got confused with all the directions. I also got frustrated because people were teaching an outdated way of doing something as the right way. Thanks to you, it took me a whole 30 seconds before I learned how to tie my shoes in a new, non-obsolete way.

Great video learned in less than 5 minutes going to teach the kids thank you

Didn't realize how easy and much faster this was. Thank you aha

awesome . i saw all the videos related to shoe lace but nothing worked on this worked. thank u so much. it is damn easy

Gday Ian. I don't know if you remember me but I used to sell you a lot of computer stuff back in the 90's. You showed us the Ian Knot back then and to this day I still haven't mastered it. And you haven't changed a bit...!!CheersMarty

very easy to understand. Thank you very much