The 3 criteria of Landing Challenges are:
1. landing precision: touching down as close as possible to the center of the blue target, not too early, not too late; this gives a maximum of 5000 points.
2. keeping the Centerline; this gives a maximum of 5000 points.
3. touching the runway as smoothly as possible: while this is not best practice, the conditions are the same for everybody. This gives a maximum of 200 points.
Formula: (points in 1 + points in 2) x points in 3

It is a bit artificial, but the conditions are the same for all...

Adding to that, the carrier capable F/A18 Super Hornet is supposed to be flown "into the deck", landing hard, to guarantee a precise point of contact to catch the arresting wires, keeping an AoA of 8 degrees (on the HUD in the middle of the E bracket).
But this challenge demands a SMOOTH landing, and the cross wind makes the aircraft drift to the left before landing, then, when rolling after touch down, the aircraft turns into the wind, in this case to the right, so we must fight until full stop.
On short final, some unsuspecting gust destabilised me a little, so I had to make many small adjustments, with a bit of left rudder at touch down, to align the aircraft with the Centerline.

A tricky landing challenge indeed.