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 ...

Everyone’s paying attention to the Winter Olympics halfway around the world in Sochi, Russia. Closer to home, there’s growing interest in a slightly different "sport" -- this one using a small, ...

Christina Shi doesn't run short on talents. Ace student. Gifted musician. And, oh yes, the West Lafayette Junior High seventh-grader already is famous — for her cup-stacking skills. In 1.7 seconds, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Blink, and you’ll miss Michael Haig’s blur of cups and hands as the world record holder assembles cups into a pyramid. The ambidextrous phenom, who just turned 5 on Aug. 26, can’t get enough of cup ...