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.

Sports Stacks is a fast-paced version of cup stacking that focuses on speed, teamwork, and hand-eye coordination.

In this video I challenge my friends Ben, Hunter, and Luke to a simple but intense cup stacking race. We each start with a stack of red cups and a timer and try to build and break down a pyramid as ...

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 ...

Clack-clack-clack-clack. Like the hoof beats of a thousand baby Clydesdales. This is cup stacking, the deceptively simple task of building and taking down pyramids of plastic cups. Fast. How fast? All ...