This cable is so great I sometimes forget that it is different. It does not tangle. Period. Maybe it will get a loop in it once in a blue moon if you are especially lazy and forceful at pulling it out off a bag. I have wadded it up and thrown it into the air and it becomes 'untangled' (for lack of a better term) before I catch it.
Oh, also I've had it for well over a year and it is still fine. Very rugged.