diff --git a/fuzzers/fuzzbench/src/lib.rs b/fuzzers/fuzzbench/src/lib.rs
index e8239ac60e..c5ad670f73 100644
--- a/fuzzers/fuzzbench/src/lib.rs
+++ b/fuzzers/fuzzbench/src/lib.rs
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ fn fuzz(
     let scheduler = IndexesLenTimeMinimizerScheduler::new(StdWeightedScheduler::with_schedule(
         &mut state,
         &edges_observer,
-        Some(PowerSchedule::EXPLORE),
+        Some(PowerSchedule::FAST),
     ));
 
     // A fuzzer with feedbacks and a corpus scheduler