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 ...

When my 9-year-old son announced one day last week that he was learning to stack cups at school, I thought he was training to be a busboy. "Good," I said. "Unload the dishwasher." I have since learned ...

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.

MILFORD — A room full of Woodland Elementary School students watched in awe Tuesday afternoon as 17-year-old Seamus Stoker whipped a dozen lavender-colored cups in and out of pyramid-shaped stacks.

Watch this high school student stack cups at record speed Sunday, April 16, 2017 ...

When Trey Griffith found his first set of stacking cups, his life was changed forever. He began training himself to rack and stack cups at lightning speed, competing in tournaments around the globe.