Our minibot climbs the pole in 2.14sec (at least thats what we were told by a comment) and it is built solely from the TETRIX kit's parts.
i'm pretty sure that with a bit improvement or Weight reduction we will be able to go up in less than 2 sec.
Our minibot's first test run-
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