JOPLIN, Mo. — It was cup stacking time again at St. Mary’s Elementary in Joplin. Part of the school’s annual “stack up” event where kindergarten through 5th grade kids were part of a world record ...

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.

Seven hundred athletes converged in Denver for the 2009 World Sports Stacking Championship. It looks simple but the sports demands agility, focus and hand-eye coordination. Stephanie Simon reports ...

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 ...

The championships made it on ESPN. Sports Illustrated featured it on its pages. Dubbed “a track meet for your hands,” Speed Stacks is taking Pleasant View Elementary School in Pleasant Valley, Iowa, ...