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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

St. PAUL -- Away from competition, Luke Myers seems like a typical 14-year-old. But put some stacking cups in front of him and prepare to be astonished. The Eden Prairie teenager is among the world's ...

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 ...