The clove hitch is used mostly for one of two things. First, to tie in the middle of a length of rope to attach something. The fact that it's somewhat adjustable is useful for this (say you want more or less slack on the line holding your tool bag). Second, as a start/end for lashings which is an arrangement of rope to hold spars, scaffolding, etc. together.
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It's a pretty simple knot: Wrap your rope around whatever you're tying to. Cross the end over the rope (it makes an X). Then go around again under the X.
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I don't know why I struggled with it so much the other day and rated it too difficult. I think I was overthinking it, or maybe looked at a bad set of instructions to brush up. 5/5, quick, easy, and hard to mess up.
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