Easy / Lucky / Hard / Weird scrambles Thread

U2 B2 L2 U2 L' U2 L' B2 F2 D2 R2 F D' B' D' F2 D' B F2

A scramble my friend got, but it is the luckiest I have seen yet. I got what would be my first sub-7 on it
z2 y' // inspection
R' F U F' R' D2 // White xxcross (6)
U L' U L U' L' U' L // 3rd pair (8)
U2 R' U R // 4th pair (4)
U R U R' U R U2 R' F R U R' U' F' // OLL 41
R2 U R U R' U' R' U' R' U R' U // PLL - Ub

44 moves
 
How was this lucky? :/
white cross was really easy, you get a free pair plus an easy one, last layer was decent, if you scramble white top green front you get all white corners in place, unless i scrabled it wrong which i do a lot
 
R2 F2 U2 R2 U' R2 B2 U' F2 D L2 B' D B L' B2 U B U

Premade first block for orange bottom, but even if you are just x2 y color neutral, you get a 1-move first square. I got a 9.59 on it, sadly not able to use the premade fb.
 
A pre-made daisy scramble I just got from cstimer
F L' D F B2 L2 D' F U' D' L2 D' F2 U' B2 L2 F2 D R' L2
 
z2 y' // inspection
R' F U F' R' D2 // White xxcross (6)
U L' U L U' L' U' L // 3rd pair (8)
U2 R' U R // 4th pair (4)
U R U R' U R U2 R' F R U R' U' F' // OLL 41
R2 U R U R' U' R' U' R' U R' U // PLL - Ub

44 moves
Or...

Scramble: U2 B2 L2 U2 L' U2 L' B2 F2 D2 R2 F D' B' D' F2 D' B F2

z2 y // inspection
L' U L' D' R' U' R D' // xxcross (8)
U2 L' U' L // 3rd pair (4)
R' U R y U2 R U R' // 4th pair (7)
U R' U' R' F R F' U R // OLL (9)
PLL Skip

28 moves. Would be my FMC PB too lol...
I did something more similar to what you found in the solve but thought this was cool too
 
I've been looking through the 3x3 rankings on WCA, and I saw a person named Robert Yomi Cadenas Nuñez‎ get a 4.65 (SaR). I looked through the scrambles for solve 2 in round 2, and I think he was in group B, because the scramble seems most likely to be a fast one. (Other scrambles didn't seem too good, but I only looked on white) For reference, Robert Yomi Cadenas Nuñez‎ averaged high 8 in the competition.

Here's the scramble:
B2 F2 R2 D' F2 R2 D U' R2 B R2 F2 L' D' U' B D L' F2 L2

The shortest x-cross solution I found was:
z2 y // inspection
u2 R2 F' R' u'

Then I've tried every way of doing the last three pairs, but I didn't get anything that might give a sub-9 cuber a sub-5. Then again, I might be wrong about the scramble. Here are the group A and group C scrambles:
A: F2 U2 L2 F2 D2 F' U2 F' L' F' R2 D2 L2 U' R D R' U2 L
C: R F' R' L2 D2 F2 U2 B2 U2 L2 B' U2 F R' B' D L F R B

Can anyone help me find the solution?
 
I've been looking through the 3x3 rankings on WCA, and I saw a person named Robert Yomi Cadenas Nuñez‎ get a 4.65 (SaR). I looked through the scrambles for solve 2 in round 2, and I think he was in group B, because the scramble seems most likely to be a fast one. (Other scrambles didn't seem too good, but I only looked on white) For reference, Robert Yomi Cadenas Nuñez‎ averaged high 8 in the competition.

Here's the scramble:
B2 F2 R2 D' F2 R2 D U' R2 B R2 F2 L' D' U' B D L' F2 L2

The shortest x-cross solution I found was:
z2 y // inspection
u2 R2 F' R' u'

Then I've tried every way of doing the last three pairs, but I didn't get anything that might give a sub-9 cuber a sub-5. Then again, I might be wrong about the scramble. Here are the group A and group C scrambles:
A: F2 U2 L2 F2 D2 F' U2 F' L' F' R2 D2 L2 U' R D R' U2 L
C: R F' R' L2 D2 F2 U2 B2 U2 L2 B' U2 F R' B' D L F R B

Can anyone help me find the solution?
Double post ig but:
x2 D2 R' B' R U2 R' D' // X-cross (not optimal but realistic)
U L U2 L' U L U' L' // Pair #2
D U' R' U R D' // Pair #3
U2 R U' R' y U' L' U L // Pair #4
R U R' U R U2 R' // (C)OLL
U2 M2 U' M U2 M' U' M2 U // EPLL
Seems pretty fast to me, it's extremely ergonomic X-cross, great lookahead, and an EPLL
 
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