There's a new skydiving Rubik's Cube-solving champ in town, but there's one big problem with this feat

A solid WEEK after election night, progressive Nithya Raman has suddenly surged into the lead in LA—leaving voters completely flabbergasted. Few things amaze me like people who can solve a Rubik's Cube. Sure, lots of things amaze me more — mountains, elaborate water features, how my dog sits on the couch and watches Unsolved Mysteries like he's super into it — but it's a very specific kind of amazement that's like, "Man, that's wild; I could never do that... nor do I really care to." But I like that other people are super into it to the point that there's now a Guinness World Record cottage industry of people solving them under different circumstances, and we've got a new top dog when it comes to solving a bunch of them while skydiving. A Rubik's Cube, the ultimate test of dexterity and spinning colored blocks. (iStock) According to UPI, 24-year-old Ishaan Hadkar has been solving cubes of the Rubik's variety virtually his entire life, and that's why he decided to try and obliterate the Guinness World Record for "most rotating puzzle cubes solved in a single skydive." MAN SHATTERS WORLD RECORD WITH 465 HALF-MARATHONS RUN IN A SINGLE YEAR I guess Rubik's Cube is a registered trademar

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