Yung-Deng Lin can stack a group of cups in about 1.6 seconds, an impressive time for a 7-year-old. To give an idea of how fast the child can stack cups, the World Sport Stacking Association overall ...

MUKWONAGO, Wis. - In the Nicloy's family home in Mukwonago, it's hard to miss the sound of nine-year-old Liam Nicloy speed stacking. "Usually, I wake up and then play a little bit in the morning, and ...

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.

SAN ANTONIO — Sport stacking has been around since the 1980’s. The goal is to stack plastic cups into a formation as fast as you can. Some fans play at home for fun. Others race the clock at sport ...

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 ...

FAIRFIELD, Ohio -- To most people, a plastic cup is just a vessel from which to drink, but for Robert Weatherington, plastic cups mean competition. The 17-year-old from Fairfield is part of the U.S.

Cup stacking sounds like something you’d do at the kitchen sink, not in, say, a school gym. But, on certain days, Karen Shute’s physical education class at M.E. Pearson Elementary School in Kansas ...