Knot Tying Reference (10 essential knots)

Bowline, figure eight, prusik and seven more: what each knot is for, when NOT to use it, a memory cue, numbered steps and the checks on the finished knot.

Looking up the knot for the job — and, as often, which knot must not be used for it: a loop that will not slip, a hitch that releases under load, a bend that joins two lines, and the checks that tell you the finished knot is dressed right.

Choosing a knot by a published strength percentage. Break tests are run differently by everyone who publishes one — wet or dry, steady pull or shock, one line material or another — so two tables can rank the same knots in opposite orders. What a knot is for, and what it must never be used for, is the part that does not move: a square knot binds, and capsizes when the two ropes are pulled apart, which is why it must not join two lines carrying anything that matters.

Baby Eye Color Predictor is the closest one after this: Punnett odds for your baby's eye colour from both parents — and the grandparents, which reveal hidden recessives.

Baby Name Generator and Christmas Tree Calculator — they come up in the same task often enough to be worth a second tab.

Each entry names the use, the misuse, a memory cue, the steps and the checks on the finished knot — and deliberately carries no strength ranking, for the reason above. It is a reference, not a course: where failure hurts, the knot, the load and the inspection habit are taught hands-on and the entries say which ones those are.