Feb. 3 (UPI) --A competitive cup stacker has become the first to complete the task with a time of under 5 seconds at a competition in Georgia. William Orrell, ranked No. 1 by the World Sport Stacking ...

Most sports are actually absurd. Golf involves hitting a tiny ball into a hole hundreds of yards away. Soccer is based on the idea of what if we didn't use our hands. Speed stacking — if you really ...

Editor’s note: This segment was rebroadcast on Sept. 30, 2025. Click here for that audio. In the early 2000s, thousands of U.S. schools had their students race the clock to stack cups in gym class.

FORT BENNING, Ga., (Feb. 24, 2016) -- Stowers and Loyd Elementary School students made a strong showing in the HOTLanta Open Sport Stacking, or cup stacking, Championship Feb. 13. The event was hosted ...

William Orrell is ranked as the top performer in the world in fast-cup stacking by the World Sport Stacking Association. Now, Orrell recently defeated the speed stacking world record, that was held by ...

The first thing I noticed when I entered the St. Michael Center in Baltic, Connecticut, several Saturdays ago was the sound. It was sport stacking time, and the gym was filled with the click-clack-pop ...

Also known as sport stacking or speed stacking, cup stacking is a sport where people rapidly stack and collapse (called down stacking) pyramids of plastic cups. The cups approved for competition by ...

Josh and Zach Hainsel know how to stack cups - fast. Unfortunately for their mother, it's usually not when they are doing the dishes. The brothers, who just finished third and fifth grade at Gold Hill ...

Sampson Elementary teacher Charlotte French prefers the nontraditional approach to teaching physical education, so when she first saw a little girl stacking plastic cups in a fury at a table while at ...

When watching 7-year-old Austin Naber stack cups, you think your eyes are playing tricks on you. It’s like viewing a recorded TV show on fast forward. The tow-headed youngster’s hands are literally a ...