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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.
✋ 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.
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.
My elementary school was too small to have a gym and we still did it.