diff --git a/cheat/cheatsheets/tar b/cheat/cheatsheets/tar
index efa615f..088137a 100644
--- a/cheat/cheatsheets/tar
+++ b/cheat/cheatsheets/tar
@@ -24,3 +24,8 @@ tar -jtvf /path/to/foo.tgz
 
 # To create a .gz archive and exclude all jpg,gif,... from the tgz
 tar czvf /path/to/foo.tgz --exclude=\*.{jpg,gif,png,wmv,flv,tar.gz,zip} /path/to/foo/
+
+# To use parallel (multi-threaded) implementation of compression algorithms:
+tar -z ... -> tar -Ipigz ...
+tar -j ... -> tar -Ipbzip2 ...
+tar -J ... -> tar -Ipixz ...