Originally Posted by
pinniped
Somebody actually tested this and found that random boarding order beat pretty much all forms of "organized" boarding.
Passengers are too chaotic to make the random boarding order work. If airlines wanted to speed up boarding, they would start by doing preboarding (have people queue in their respective block, gate check big items, scold the passengers that arrive with 8 carry-on) and give incentives to passengers to check their bags.