Tie and Tie Again

How many possible ways are there to lace an average shoe? This simple question, when answered with mathematics, results in some surprisingly big numbers - on an average shoe with six pairs of eyelets, there are 1,961,990,553,600 ways to feed a shoelace though those 12 eyelets.

Thats almost 2 trillion!

Of course many of these are not "lacing methods" but click here to see countless ways to lace a pair shoes. My favorite is Ladder Lacing.

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