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.

In effort to promote friendly competition, Freeland Middle School 7th and 8th-graders learned how to quickly stack cups in precise form, not to allow any to tumble down. Students competed against one ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - It’s an unlikely P.E. unit at Huntington Elementary School that is teaching students to race against the clock while stacking cups. The cup stacking unit gives students the ...

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 ...

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. Luke Myers practices his cup stacking skills at ...