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Was cup stacking as popular as this article makes it out to be? The only reason I’ve heard about it before is because it was seen as a sort of sister hobby to Rubik’s cubing
My impression is that it was highly regional, with a few areas, covering several percent of the population, being really big on it for several years.
It was big in a “look at this niche thing people are doing” back in the early 2000s but honestly haven’t thought about it since.
There was even a fairly famous song that used a beat made by cups being stacked if I recall.
It says that around 5000 schools had the program, so roughly 7-8% of people between 25-35 probably did it for school.
It started in elementary school thru middle school for us. They marketed being good at cup stacking as indicative of being good at other athletics.
✋ yes hello. I did cup stacking for a unit in middle school gym class. It was very bizarre.
I did it in elementary school and convinced my mom to buy me a glow in the dark set.
My elementary school was too small to have a gym and we still did it.