How come tied shoelaces love to untie, but clumsily packed away wires love to knot themselves?

Question

How come tied shoelaces love to untie, but clumsily packed away wires love to knot themselves?

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Answer 1

Well Just First of all

Do the normal shoe lane tying thing

Then as you’re about to finish up

Pull one of the loops thru the center knot hole an extra time.

Then pull both loops tight as you normally would.

The result will be a shoe lace knot that won’t come undone on its own, that is not a ‘double knot’ that will come undone by pulling a single one of the lace ends, just as a normal shoelace knot would come undone