diff --git a/fuzzers/fuzzbench_weighted/src/bin/libafl_cc.rs b/fuzzers/fuzzbench_weighted/src/bin/libafl_cc.rs
index 68a84b0333..96644865ea 100644
--- a/fuzzers/fuzzbench_weighted/src/bin/libafl_cc.rs
+++ b/fuzzers/fuzzbench_weighted/src/bin/libafl_cc.rs
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ use libafl_cc::{ClangWrapper, CompilerWrapper, LLVMPasses};
 use std::env;
 
 pub fn main() {
-    let args: Vec<String> = env::args().collect();
+    let mut args: Vec<String> = env::args().collect();
     if args.len() > 1 {
         let mut dir = env::current_exe().unwrap();
         let wrapper_name = dir.file_name().unwrap().to_str().unwrap();
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ pub fn main() {
 
         dir.pop();
 
+        // Must be always present, even without --libafl
+        args.push("-fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc-guard,trace-cmp".into());
+
         let mut cc = ClangWrapper::new();
 
         #[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
@@ -29,7 +32,6 @@ pub fn main() {
             .parse_args(&args)
             .expect("Failed to parse the command line")
             .link_staticlib(&dir, "fuzzbench")
-            .add_arg("-fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc-guard,trace-cmp")
             .add_pass(LLVMPasses::CmpLogRtn)
             .run()
             .expect("Failed to run the wrapped compiler")
diff --git a/fuzzers/fuzzbench_weighted/src/lib.rs b/fuzzers/fuzzbench_weighted/src/lib.rs
index 8f980aa934..66dfb9a7d5 100644
--- a/fuzzers/fuzzbench_weighted/src/lib.rs
+++ b/fuzzers/fuzzbench_weighted/src/lib.rs
@@ -318,8 +318,9 @@ fn fuzz(
     let power = StdPowerMutationalStage::new(mutator, &edges_observer);
 
     // A minimization+queue policy to get testcasess from the corpus
-    let scheduler =
-        IndexesLenTimeMinimizerScheduler::new(StdWeightedScheduler::new(Some(PowerSchedule::FAST)));
+    let scheduler = IndexesLenTimeMinimizerScheduler::new(StdWeightedScheduler::new(Some(
+        PowerSchedule::EXPLORE,
+    )));
 
     // A fuzzer with feedbacks and a corpus scheduler
     let mut fuzzer = StdFuzzer::new(scheduler, feedback, objective);