It’s quite possible, after all these years, that you’ve been tying your shoes all wrong.
Would you believe that it’s taken a mathematician — one who wears lace-free Birkenstocks — to figure out what the BEST WAY TO TIE YOUR SHOELACES happens to be? Let’s take a look:
Posted in the YouTube account MATHOLOGER (aka Australian professor Burkard Polster), this 20-year old video examines and asks whether tying your shoes “criss-cross” is better than using “straight” lacing or not… and why.
To get to the final answer, it’s always about the math. What’s the definition of “best”, what’s the “shortest”? The “longest”, the “strongest”. It’s all here in the video.
You may be surprised at what the conclusions are — it’s quite possible that all of us have been tying our shoes wrong this whole time.