The "Wisconsin Winter Stack Up" hosted some of the country's fastest cup stackers. Sport stacking is a competition in which competitors stack specially designed cups up and down in set patterns. Speed ...

Fifth-grader Luke Mueller high fives Utah's number one sport stacker, Ethan Sumsion, after they raced during a sport stacking event at South Weber Elementary school on Thursday, November 13, 2014.

The sport involves stacking nine to 12 specially designed cups in predetermined sequences as quickly as possible.

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 ...

It's an unusual and popular sport called stacking. Participants beat by seeing how fast they can stack cups and a world record holders get this a Maryland 10 year old. 11. News education reporter Tim ...

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.

It's an addiction, they say. The speedy cup stackers at Oregon Episcopal School can't stop themselves. Time and again, they stack plastic cups in towers of three or six or 10 or 12 as fast as their ...