The "Instant" Knot

What you need: 

1. A rope about 3 feet in length.
2. Guts.

The Secret: (You're going to hate me for this.) The secret is that you've already tied a knot on one end of the rope. (See?!?)

Take the rope and tie a knot about 3 inches from the end. Don't make it too tight; this still has to be believable. 

Practice This Move: Hold the rope in your right hand with the knot hidden in our right hand. Flick the end of the rope up and catch it in your right hand. When you catch the end of the rope, drop the end with the knot.

If you do this fast enough and smoothly enough (and I do mean smoooothly!), it'll look as if you flicked a knot in the rope! (Don't whip it around; you may hurt someone.)

I must stress that this may take some practice. Perhaps even a few hours, but it'll be worth it... trust me. This effect only works of you can do the above move correctly.

To Perform: This'll take some guts, but you can do this! (I know you can.)

Hold the rope in your right hand with the knot hidden in our right hand. Allow the end of the rope to stick out. Don't make a big deal of this; just believe it's a rope without a knot and your audience will, too.

Tell your audience that you will attempt the impossible — to tie a knot in the rope with just a flick of the wrist.

Do a few false starts to show that even you have a hard time doing this. (You don't want to make this look too easy, do you?)

Then, after the false starts, do the "move", catching the end of the rope and allowing the knot to appear.

Believe me, this will look very impressive!

I must stress three things here:

1. Practice this. It's too simple, but not so easy.
2. Don't tie the knot too tightly; no one will believe it if it's too tight.
3. Practice this!!!

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