A method for producing a workpiece tapped hole with an internal thread, wherein a rotating tapping tool is driven into the workpiece in a drilling stroke up to a desired drilling depth (t B) forming a pilot hole, and is guided out of the pilot hole in a reverse drilling stroke with a reverse feed motion and a rotational speed synchronized therewith forming the internal thread, wherein in the drilling stroke the tapping tool rotates in the same direction as or in the opposite direction to the reverse drilling stroke, wherein the tapping tool has a drilling portion (S1, S2) that creates the pilot hole in the drilling stroke and has a thread-creating portion that creates the internal thread in the reverse drilling stroke, wherein in the drilling stroke the tool thread-creating portion remains unloaded and not in engagement with the pilot hole wall, and in the reverse drilling stroke the tool drilling portion (S1, S2) remains unloaded and not in engagement with the internal thread created, wherein at the drilling stroke end for preparing the reverse drilling stroke a free driving cut is made, in which the tapping tool rotating about its tool axis is radially offset by a radial offset (Δr) and is guided in a circular rotational movement along a circular path about the drilling axis, wherein the tapping tool has at least one first drilling edge and one second drilling edge, which are spaced apart from one another by a cutting angle (α) in the tool circumferential direction (u), characterized in that the cutting angle (α) is dimensioned such that the two drilling edges (S1, S2) are guided out of the workpiece tapped hole in the reverse drilling stroke without loading and not in engagement with the created internal thread, wherein the tool thread-creating portion is arranged in the tool circumferential direction (u) outside the rotational angle range (α) spanned by the two drilling edges (S1, S2), and wherein in the reverse drilling stroke the tool rotation and the tool circular movement take place both in the same direction of rotation and at the same speed. wherein a rotating tapping tool is driven into the workpiece in a drilling stroke up to a desired drilling depth (t B) forming a pilot hole, and is guided out of the pilot hole in a reverse drilling stroke with a reverse feed motion and a rotational speed synchronized therewith forming the internal thread, wherein in the drilling stroke the tapping tool rotates in the same direction as or in the opposite direction to the reverse drilling stroke, wherein the tapping tool has a drilling portion (S1, S2) that creates the pilot hole in the drilling stroke and has a thread-creating portion that creates the internal thread in the reverse drilling stroke, wherein in the drilling stroke the tool thread-creating portion remains unloaded and not in engagement with the pilot hole wall, and in the reverse drilling stroke the tool drilling portion (S1, S2) remains unloaded and not in engagement with the internal thread created, wherein at the drilling stroke end for preparing the reverse drilling stroke a free driving cut is made, in which the tapping tool rotating about its tool axis is radially offset by a radial offset (Δr) and is guided in a circular rotational movement along a circular path about the drilling axis, wherein the tapping tool has at least one first drilling edge and one second drilling edge, which are spaced apart from one another by a cutting angle (α) in the tool circumferential direction (u), characterized in that the cutting angle (α) is dimensioned such that the two drilling edges (S1, S2) are guided out of the workpiece tapped hole in the reverse drilling stroke without loading and not in engagement with the created internal thread, wherein the tool thread-creating portion is arranged in the tool circumferential direction (u) outside the rotational angle range (α) spanned by the two drilling edges (S1, S2), and wherein in the reverse drilling stroke the tool rotation and the tool circular movement take place both in the same direction of rotation and at the same speed.