# Ranking of worst knots

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**Category:** Practical Knots\
**Created:** [16 March 2018 13:34 UTC](https://discourse.igkt.net/t/ranking-of-worst-knots/6435 "2018-03-16T13:34:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dan\_Lehman](https://discourse.igkt.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Dan\_Lehman](https://discourse.igkt.net/u/Dan_Lehman)\
**Post date:** [17 March 2018 20:27 UTC](https://discourse.igkt.net/t/ranking-of-worst-knots/6435/4 "2018-03-17T20:27:49Z")

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> [@Ulxaaf post:1](#):
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> 1. Taunline hitch - [ABOK](https://discourse.igkt.net/t/9845) #1856
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> I never worked for me.  
> I tried it with different kind of ropes, and it was a fail everytime.

!!? Well, I use it often, and it _works_ often. (Absent  
[ABOK](https://discourse.igkt.net/t/9845) now, I don’t know if the cited knot is one that  
essentially makes an adjustable eye knot, or is purely  
hitch to rigid or flexible object.) I frequently tie it in  
small cords, binding this or that to a backpack for  
transport 'a velo. I even use it in lubricated polyester  
webbing, and here it’s certainly a YMMV sort of thing,  
where one considers needed security vis-a-vis forces;  
it might need some help.

One can finish the knot with a slip-knot stopper (not  
trusting that finishing half-hitch to hold); one can add  
an additional turn, or even _guard_ the knot with a  
round-turn nipping loop taking the main load.

To you naysayers, what do you (try to) use it for that  
it fails, and with what do you replace it?

As for my worst knots, there are probably many candy dates  
among the innumerable _new_ things I keep fiddling!

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