I believe knot-tying would be a great, life-long skill to have, especially being able to know which knots work best for different situations, like when the rope is thick and not very flexible or bendable.
I have lots of nylon rope and fishing line of various diameters, but don’t know where to begin and/or the best way to get started. My goal is to make this a long-term hobby and spend 1-2 hours per week improving my knot-tying knowledge, skill, and speed.
it’s not going to stick unless you have an application for it.
like, learn the knots that you would actually use in real life or for your hobbies.
I am trying to get into “low dopamine hobbies” which is why I got into beekeeping last year and has been one of the best decisions of my life. Anything you do regularly becomes positively reinforced so as long as an activity isn’t annoying or negative, you can do it more often until you enjoy it, even if it’s not enjoyable at first. I also would like to practice speed at tying knots since that would give me a goal to look forward to. I’m a huge fan of watching speedrunning videos and always find doing something fast is entertaining, even if the underlying activity is nothing special in and of itself. I also love watching people play piano pieces extremely fast, and I myself have put in hundreds of hours of practice into playing 1-2 piano pieces about a decade ago. It gave me a goal to look forward to and I enjoyed the challenge, especially since I was terrible at piano before I began. 😁
I think you’ll be fine if you’re interested in it. It helps to reinforce if you use the knowledge practically but I went through a phase where I learned a bunch of knots for climbing. Turns out you mostly use the same one or two knots for most things and most of what I learned wasn’t super practical. I still enjoyed it and occasionally find uses for some of the other knots outside of climbing. Most I still remember despite not using often though I admit I can’t quite recall how to tie a Monkey’s Fist properly….