diff --git a/.changeset/table-row-cell-order.md b/.changeset/table-row-cell-order.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c21c8227
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/table-row-cell-order.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@human-kit/ui': patch
+---
+
+Scrolling a wide virtualized table no longer stalls. A row kept the order of its cells in a `SvelteSet` and a `SvelteMap`, and rewrote the index of every cell after one that left, so a row of fourteen columns leaving the viewport made around a hundred reactive writes. The order now lives in a plain array, read with `indexOf`, and the row's existing epoch announces when a removal moves the cells after it.
diff --git a/packages/ui/src/lib/table/root/table-drop-column-test.svelte b/packages/ui/src/lib/table/root/table-drop-column-test.svelte
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3c8ad04f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/ui/src/lib/table/root/table-drop-column-test.svelte
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+<script lang="ts">
+	import { Table } from '../index';
+
+	type DemoRow = { id: string; email: string; group: string; role: string };
+	type ColumnId = 'email' | 'group' | 'role';
+
+	const rows: DemoRow[] = [
+		{ id: 'danilo', email: 'danilo@example.com', group: 'Developer', role: 'Owner' },
+		{ id: 'zahra', email: 'zahra@example.com', group: 'Admin', role: 'Viewer' }
+	];
+
+	let withGroup = $state(true);
+	const columns = $derived<ColumnId[]>(withGroup ? ['email', 'group', 'role'] : ['email', 'role']);
+</script>
+
+<Table.Root aria-label="Drop column table">
+	<Table.Header>
+		<Table.Row>
+			{#each columns as column (column)}
+				<Table.Column id={column} rowHeader={column === 'email'} textValue={column}>
+					<Table.ColumnHeaderCell data-testid={`${column}-header`}>{column}</Table.ColumnHeaderCell>
+				</Table.Column>
+			{/each}
+		</Table.Row>
+	</Table.Header>
+
+	<Table.Body>
+		{#each rows as row (row.id)}
+			<Table.Row id={row.id}>
+				{#each columns as column (column)}
+					<Table.Cell data-testid={`${column}-cell-${row.id}`}>{row[column]}</Table.Cell>
+				{/each}
+			</Table.Row>
+		{/each}
+	</Table.Body>
+</Table.Root>
+
+<button type="button" data-testid="drop-group" onclick={() => (withGroup = false)}
+	>Drop group</button
+>
diff --git a/packages/ui/src/lib/table/root/table-root.test.ts b/packages/ui/src/lib/table/root/table-root.test.ts
index c31950e0..99fcc0c1 100644
--- a/packages/ui/src/lib/table/root/table-root.test.ts
+++ b/packages/ui/src/lib/table/root/table-root.test.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import { render } from 'vitest-browser-svelte';
 import { userEvent } from 'vitest/browser';
 import TableTest from './table-test.svelte';
 import TableReorderTest from './table-reorder-test.svelte';
+import TableDropColumnTest from './table-drop-column-test.svelte';
 import { expectNoFalseFocusAttributes } from '../../test-utils/focus-contract';
 
 function getHeaderCells(container: HTMLElement) {
@@ -1266,4 +1267,21 @@ describe('Table.Root', () => {
 			getBodySecondColumnCells(document.body).map((cell) => cell.textContent?.trim())
 		).toContain('Admin');
 	});
+
+	// A row keeps the order of its cells in plain arrays, announced by an epoch: a cell that
+	// leaves from the middle has to move the ones after it down, in the header and the body.
+	it('moves the cells after a removed one down a column', async () => {
+		render(TableDropColumnTest);
+		const index = (testId: string) =>
+			document.querySelector(`[data-testid="${testId}"]`)?.getAttribute('data-column-index');
+
+		expect(index('role-header')).toBe('2');
+		expect(index('role-cell-danilo')).toBe('2');
+
+		document.querySelector<HTMLElement>('[data-testid="drop-group"]')?.click();
+
+		await expect.poll(() => index('role-header')).toBe('1');
+		await expect.poll(() => index('role-cell-danilo')).toBe('1');
+		await expect.poll(() => index('role-cell-zahra')).toBe('1');
+	});
 });
diff --git a/packages/ui/src/lib/table/row/table-row.svelte b/packages/ui/src/lib/table/row/table-row.svelte
index 3bf88406..661ebfd6 100644
--- a/packages/ui/src/lib/table/row/table-row.svelte
+++ b/packages/ui/src/lib/table/row/table-row.svelte
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 <script lang="ts">
 	import { onDestroy } from 'svelte';
-	import { SvelteMap, SvelteSet } from 'svelte/reactivity';
 	import {
 		setTableRowContext,
 		useTableContext,
@@ -24,9 +23,12 @@
 	const table = useTableContext();
 	const section = useTableSectionContext();
 	const rowToken = table.createInstanceToken('row');
+	// Plain, not reactive: the epoch below is what announces a change. These used to be a
+	// `SvelteSet` and a `SvelteMap` whose indexes were rewritten for every cell after the one that
+	// left, so a virtualized row of fourteen columns leaving the viewport made ~100 reactive writes
+	// — the whole cost of scrolling a wide table. A row has a handful of cells: `indexOf` over them
+	// is cheaper than keeping an index map in step.
 	const cellOrder: string[] = [];
-	const cellOrderSet = new SvelteSet<string>();
-	const cellIndexByToken = new SvelteMap<string, number>();
 	const cellElements: Record<string, () => HTMLElement | undefined> = {};
 	// Counter-based on purpose: cell indexes are resolved against the live DOM
 	// (`rowElement.children`), so order changes are event-like (registration /
@@ -101,10 +103,8 @@
 	}
 
 	function registerCellToken(token: string, getElement?: () => HTMLElement | undefined) {
-		const alreadyOrdered = cellOrderSet.has(token);
+		const alreadyOrdered = cellOrder.includes(token);
 		if (!alreadyOrdered) {
-			cellOrderSet.add(token);
-			cellIndexByToken.set(token, cellOrder.length);
 			cellOrder.push(token);
 		}
 		if (getElement) {
@@ -125,17 +125,15 @@
 
 	function unregisterCellToken(token: string) {
 		delete cellElements[token];
-		const index = cellIndexByToken.get(token) ?? -1;
+		const index = cellOrder.indexOf(token);
 		if (index >= 0) {
 			cellOrder.splice(index, 1);
-			cellOrderSet.delete(token);
-			cellIndexByToken.delete(token);
-			for (let nextIndex = index; nextIndex < cellOrder.length; nextIndex += 1) {
-				cellIndexByToken.set(cellOrder[nextIndex], nextIndex);
-			}
 			if (isBodyRow && !tracksDynamicBodyCellOrder) {
 				if (bodyCellOrderSealed) {
 					promoteBodyCellOrderTracking();
+				} else if (index < cellOrder.length) {
+					// The cells after it moved down one: the index map used to say so by itself.
+					notifyCellOrderChange();
 				}
 				return;
 			}
@@ -150,7 +148,7 @@
 			const index = Array.from(rowElement.children).indexOf(element);
 			if (index >= 0) return index;
 		}
-		return cellIndexByToken.get(token) ?? -1;
+		return cellOrder.indexOf(token);
 	}
 
 	setTableRowContext({