The following are standard knots that an accomplished camper should know. Remember a perfect knot is one that's neither jambs nor slips.

Slip knot, running noose, or halter knot.

Fixed loop in middle of a cord.

Reef knot or square knot: never slips or jambs: easily loosed.

False reef or granny: always bad.

Bowline: a noose that neither jambs nor slips.

The fisherman's knot. It never slips; is easily opened by pulling the two short ends.

Anchor bend.

Weaver's knot or sheet bend, for joining small cords.

Binder knot, for joining heavy cord, etc.

Two half-hitches.

Picket rope with a half-granny and a half-hitch.

Carrick bend, for joining large ropes.

Timber hitch: cannot slip or jamb; easily loosed.

Clove hitch.

Blackwall hitch.

Becket hitch, for joining a cord and a rope.

Wax-end lashing; hidden end.