hobby #243
Sport Stacking
Learning to stack and collapse specially designed cups in timed sequences, starting with the 3–3–3 and working towards the full Cycle. A deceptively absorbing dexterity hobby where both hands need useful jobs and one misplaced rim can dismantle an otherwise excellent afternoon.
Twelve Cups and a Left Hand That Supervises
Sport StackingA clattering demonstration at the community centre leads to crooked pyramids, an unfinished Cycle and repeated failures to leave.
code-a-day tied to this hobby
- Two Hands Cannot Halve Every Stacking Time Amdahl’s Law