eli5 how can headphones get so tangled?

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I can’t understand how It takes them 1day to get tangled into a bleeping exp lvl sudoķu that you need 40min for? Like I an sure I didn’t tangle that cable that way…

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Theres actually a study on this [here](https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.0611320104)

The length of a string paired with rate of agitation.. so shaking etc can create quite complex knots due to sheer probability

The longer a string gets the more likely it is.

Headphones are technically even worse because it is 2 seperate cables so the left and right cable can be tangled even faster..theres just a lot more chances a knot forms

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