When it comes to the Rubik's Cube, Chris Hardwick doesn't screw around. The Raleigh man has held world speed records for solving the Cube blindfolded and still owns a couple of U.S. ones.

Hardwick, 23, will look this weekend to get back into the international record books at the World Rubik's Cube Championship in Budapest, Hungary. His specialty is solving larger-than-standard cubes, ones that require more twists and turns than the cube you threw against the wall in disgust in 1984. But just because he works as a math tutor, and is probably some kind of supergenius, does not mean he is without a sense of humor. In that spirit, we asked him who would win in a fight between Rubik's experts and their Jenga counterparts.

"I'm not sure I could see a clear winner," he writes via e-mail from Budapest. "Although Rubik's Cubes are very heavy, I think those Jenga blocks are much more pointy, plus they would have nearly unlimited numbers of them compared to us just having a couple cubes each."

Check next week to see how he did. USA! USA!