Even mathematicians do laundry! Someone recently said to me: "Hey James. You're a mathematician. You should be able to figure out how to fold a fitted sheet." Here's the result.
Thank you James! I’m a PhD in Physics. I’ve been trying to fold fitted sheets from other RU-vid’s and can never remember it from one time to the next. But your “U” and doing it backwards broke through too me. I think I will remember this for the rest of my life. Thanks again.
I can fix a welding machine from bits and bolts to full power! But can I fold a fitted sheet? Thanks to James, and his teaching brain, his light and happy attitude, and the encouragement factor of 11 yes. I can now fold a fitted sheet. I scrolled through Nana's videos, rifled through Grandma's brain but none of them landed a successful lesson like James here. Once again, a math teacher has changed my life!
By an order of magnitude, this is by far the BEST fitted sheet folding video I’ve seen - and I’ve watched A LOT of them! Thanks to the Math Guy for making it SIMPLE!!!
The explanation of the u-shape (and you spending several moments just showing us where you were holding your hands) finally got the concept through to me. Thanks.
Watched 5 videos, all of them are like, "Okay ready? Take one hand, move it here, and WOW, a perfectly folded sheet!" "WHAT?!?!?!" Thanks bro, this helped out TREMENDOUSLY!
Just coz he said terms like reverse engineering and he said he was going to use mathematics you fell for his spiel. I guess all the guys who liked this video are now the go to guy for folding fitted sheets in the household.
Sheer congratulations. Very bright. Great way of thinking: 1 Start from the end, and go backwards, 2. Show crucial intermediate steps (u shape). 1. and 2. may be very useful to explain how to do many other things, not only how to fold fitted sheet, almost everything actually. This is revolutionary.
Brilliant! My Grandmother tried to teach me, 50+ yrs ago. My mother tried forty years ago, as I was leaving the nest. Since then, I just kind of fold them in half a couple of times and stuff them in my linen closet. Retired now, so I have the time to learn. RU-vid has too many videos on folding fitted sheets. THIS VIDEO should be your go-to. Easy to follow: U-shape> Half> 3rds> 3rds = Brilliant! Thanks, James
Oh my goodness, this was me - I googled how to fold fitted sheets and ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS was stumped after ‘fold the first two corners in’! After seeing your video, it made complete sense once I visualised the ‘U’ shape first. I will never forget how to do it now because of your super simple method. Thank you so much, forever grateful! 🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️
Hey Robert, you and I are the same age and I'm in the same boat! But this chore has been an annoyance for years for me. Hopefully I can remember what I just viewed!
Hey old timer. After watching numerous videos I FINALLY folded a fitted sheet reasonably well. Didn’t end up in a ball .. I laid the sheet onto a bed then used the horseshoe method.. Video was 1min 20 sec. skip this math nerd and search out that method .. and I’m 65 !!
You made this so easy I did it on my first try! Finally someone smart enough to think like a first timer and break down the steps slowly and descriptive enough so even the most spatially challenged could understand. Thank you for not making me feel like an idiot!
This is literally the only one of 4 videos that helped. I had to watch it twice, but I eventually got it. Thanks James, you've been saving people's folding abilities since 2016
Oh thank goodness!! This has bugged me for years 😫. All the videos I’ve watched tucked all 4 corners together and all I achieved was a lumpy mess. Not a major issue in the scheme of things I know but if there’s a tidy way to do something I damn well want to do it. Thanks James.
Hi James, I must have watched umpteen women & men go on about how to fold a fitted sheet and like yourself the beginning of the task looked promising. Then I'd fall behind not long after that I'd think, why can't anybody have a video that is relatable?? Then I came upon a video where a guy named James showed me how to fold a fitted sheet. Ahhh, finally someone whom I understand and can follow along without getting lost! Oh the joy, thank you so very much. I do enjoy it when I conquer a problem. I'll be sure to have a look at your other videos‼️
Finally, someone who explained what to look for, the u shape. It still took me a while to get it but now I know the 1st goal is the u shape and from there it makes sense. Thank you!
The problem with the other videos is that you have people who know how to do it and they have forgotten what it’s like to not be able to do it. So they talk you through a couple of steps and assume that they’re actually explaining everything because they understand what they are doing, meanwhile, some things are left incomprehensible to those who don't understand the process. As an educator, you have bypassed this blunder. I also know to avoid that mistake because I have taught people guitar and have learned to put myself in the mindset of someone who doesn’t know what I know. Yours is the best tutorial on how to fold a fitted sheet that I'm aware of.
Thank you for this public service. I went through half a dozen videos that all were “do a, then b, then c, turn it over and you’ve got a perfectly folded sheet” but without any explanation of the logic of it and we’re impossible to follow/replicate. This was so helpful!
Finally a man explaining it in a logical manner - mastered it first try after watching this versus of all the times I tried watching Martha Stewart and all the other women experts. Thank you kind sir!!
I don’t know how many videos I watched before I found yours. At one point I ended up tangled in a straight jacket. Yours made perfect sense and I folded the sheet properly on the first attempt. Well done!
I kept pausing other videos (with my hands twisted in the sheet!) and always got lost within the first 20 seconds. You gave me a way to THINK about the process that I won't forget - thanks!
Thank you James I finally got it with your video and the U shape. I’ve watched so many video’s before your’s and would not click. I appreciate your time and effort in doing this.
I just finished folding my first four fitted sheets finally at age 73! "This was the video that did the trick!" Thank you. I'm not a mathematician but a did get a 780 in Math on my SATs!
I am 58 and you have just saved my life!! You took a process, that appeared in "TA DA" magic videos and presented it logically, where all the pieces have their place. Learn the design. That was masterful. Thank you!
After 4 vidoes I found yours, but only after frustration of the others that made no damn sense, I laid it on my bed thinking, that corner fold, over fold, over fold, over fold was too much, and came up through grit, common sense and ingenuity.. The same fold you did! Thanks so much!
Like you, sir.... all the videos lost me after they pinched the first corners. Yours is the only video that truly showed me how to fold the fitted sheet... signed, an engineer.. thank you!
Watched 3 other videos (several times each by the way), worked for them, not for me. Was ready to give up and your video played while is was fumbling with the sheet. Said to myself, "that is a man teaching how to fold a fitted sheet, lets give it a try". 60 seconds after watching your video I was sitting there PROUD of my FOLDED fitted sheet!!! Great video, Thanks
I watched another video before this and it was impossible to figure out. It wasn’t until you showed me the opening of a new package and I saw it folded in half and I was like dang, ding ding! I had my sheet folded before you even finished your video. Thank you so much.
a BIG thank you for sharing. I've watched like 4 videos on how to fold fitted sheet, but no one has explained it than how you did. love your work! thanks again
The only one that actually helped me figure things out. I kept feeling nuts that I couldn't fold one that everyone was doing. But, until I saw yours, I couldn't figure it out
Thank YOU James. Like you I tried countless videos on how to fold a fitted sheet and got lost UNTIL YOUR VIDEO. Reverse engineering the folded version completely got me to fold the dang sheet! Bless you!!! 😉👍🏽🎉
I've worked with James at the Mathematical Association of America. He is a delight. I loved finding this video of him working out the fitted sheet folding math.
As an engineer, I always thought 'folding fitted sheets?? ...can't be done' just fold them up and toss'em in the drawer....today I had an epiphany: "there's got to be a better way....let's google this". Low and behold, someone I know ( The Great Courses ) is showing me how to do this. Had six of'em fresh out of the dryer...and whad'daya know? they're all neatly tucked in the drawer now. Thank You!!
This way is so much easier then the other two ways I was shown. One I got lost so that didn't help me the other i could do bug I kept forgetting how to do it when it was time to fold my fitted sheet. This way I won't forget. Thank you mates guy for the easiest way to fold fitted sheets yet.
THANK YOU! I watched over 10 videos before getting to this one and this is the ONLY one that helped me finish the fold, the second half always lost me until I found this video!!
WTF why didn't I start with searching for a mathematicians answer to this problem?! Now all I need is some motivation to change my sheets and I'm golden.
Thank you so much lmao I'm 26 years old and I e watched numerous how to videos and yours was the only one I was actually able to successfully fold a fitted sheet twice. Thanks so much my grandmother would be so proud. I'm so proud of myself lmao 20 years later
Looking at the comments, I'm happy to have found this video at 27. I won't lie tho, I was sweating as I tried it out. Was successful on the first try. Thank you James.
Omg thank you i finally can fold a fitted sheet I’m 26 and just learned your video made so much more sense than the other videos i watched when you reverse engineered it 🙌🏼
I wanted to surprise my wife by folding all the sheets as I know she's given up following videos and hates it, was utterly shocked that there were so many videos that all went into the same confusing mess after "fold this corner over that"... I even watched them at half speed and still couldn't work out what they were doing as they said descriptively "now that there and that there and stuff it up there" - what?! I actually started to lose hope until I found this video, then nailed it first time and feel like I get it now, honestly thank you so much! I was starting to feel there was some kind of magic circle nonesense going on for laundry where once you know you never teach others, just descend into mumbling and do it with slight of hand to make them think you told them and they were too dumb to get it
I love math. This was sooo easy and well explained. I was always annoyed cuz I hated to fold these sheets. I have passed this test 6 times by folding all my 6 sets. Thank you.
Like you I got lost after the first step because every video just sped past what I needed to do in a way I didn't understand. Thanks for the help! My crib sheets will now be easy to find amongst my other sheets.
This is the first fitted sheet folding video - and I've been through a TON - that I actually understood and retained. Thank you, James. I'm so happy I found someone who could speak my language.
100%. All those old ladies telling me to grab all 4 corners and magically have a square when it was some weird trapezoid has to throwing the sheet in the closet in a ball. This worked so much better ❤❤❤
James...I did it! I watched and rewatched videos on how to fold a fitted sheet. I was exasperated. Why couldn’t I understand the steps? I’ll tell you why...I hadn’t watched your video yet! Thank you so much for breaking down the process. Don’t tell Martha but you’re the jam when it comes to folding fitted sheets.
Thank you James! The way you explained it was very helpful. The reverse engineering you showed on the flat surface of the table, the 3 x 3 x 2 folds you demonstrated and the elastic "U" shape made perfect sense. Your scholarly advice made something I have been struggling to understand through multiple other youtube instructors extremely easy. At last, your instruction helped me with my first successful fold... and it makes so much sense! Thank you James. This has been the best and most educational video I have seen on youtube. I can see it now, my new pickup line will be, "Here! I can see a solution to your problem/s, and so let me fold that for you...". Cheers Bro! I can't wait for the sequel "How to Fold a Fitted Sheet 2 - from a Math Guy".
My Goodness Mr. Math Guy! I am forever grateful to you for making this video.. i have watched i don't how many videos on YT but they ALL lost me at the ends.. literally at the folded ends.. and YOU being the genius that you are.. solved EXACTLY that problem for me.. YESS.. FINALLY I know how to fold a freaking fitted sheet!
