How many knots can you tie?

[Rum_Pirate]

How many knots can you tie?

[Keith Wilson]

Without thinking about it much, eight or ten. That's enough for most things.

[ron ll]

Lots. The more knots you tie on something, the less likely it’ll come loose.

[Peerie Maa]

'Bout 10 straight off, two or three more with instructions to jog my memory.
Does a Turks Head count?

[robm]

Well over 20.

Do variations, like the double sheet bend, count? If so, over 30.

Many of them, all the useful ones, blindfolded.

[Ted Hoppe]

are these in the count?

[Jay Greer]

No comment! I do it for a living.
Jay

[wizbang 13]

If you don’t know a knot, tie a lot.

[artif]

are these in the count?

In my world a Prince Albert has whole different meaning.
Back to knots, having a life playing with boats, rock climbing and fishing, I know quite few, but regularly use around 15.

[Rum_Pirate]

In my world a Prince Albert has whole different meaning.
Back to knots, having a life playing with boats, rock climbing and fishing, I know quite few, but regularly use around 15.

I now wish I had not googled "a Prince Albert" images.

There are some things best left unknown.

[Draketail]

"If you don't know a knot, tie a lot" leads to what a now departed WWII navy vet friend of mine called "hatchet knots". The only way to untie them was with a hatchet.

[artif]

I now wish I had not googled "a Prince Albert" images.

There are some things best left unknown.

Just the tip of the iceberg
In your part of the world beading is more likely, tattoos weren't the only thing sailors did.

[Dave Hadfield]

Once you get a handle on knots, and can tie a dozen or so, plus variations, you start to improvise. When you are confronted by a situation, you explore in your mind how you would deploy rope to tackle it, and you come up with new ways to configure and load it.

It's not like memorizing a book of knots. It's more like grabbing a tool and using it in weird new ways.

Like welding something on to a wrench. That's what you do with rope -- only unplugged.

[CK 17]

My tie, my shoes, a boland, half hitch and a square knot.

[paulf]

I'm assuming the requirement is from memory, not looking at a book.

[leikec]

This is the sort of thing I hire out.

Jeff C

[AndyG]

Knot a lot.

Andy

[Chris Coose]

Not nearly as many as Republicans.

[TomF]

About 10, I figure.