Essential Knots: 10 Basic Knots Everyone Should Know

While everyone is familiar with how to lace their shoes, the reality is that overhand knots and granny loops aren’t the only essential knots you should know. On the contrary, as you’ll always be tying things down -- even in your daily life -- so it helps to have an understanding of some common knots. Accordingly, we’ve put together this handy guide of how to tie 10 basic knots, including things like best-use cases and strength ratings along the way.

Video Chapters:

0:00 Intro
00:38 Square Knot
01:46 Sheet Bend
02:50 Bowline
03:59 Taut-Line Hitch
05:01 Round Turn and Two Half Hitches
06:13 Figure Eight Knot
07:10 Clove Hitch
08:16 Anchor Bend
09:23 Fisherman’s Knot
10:28 Trucker’s Hitch

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[chestnut]

if you had a long piece of rope that you might need to tie to something so you could get out of like a 2nd floor fire, what's the best kind of knot for that? so making a knot in one end around something and using the other end to scale down and out

[SuperMallowRPG]

Takes you so long to explain each step that I keep getting lost.