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Force Awakens girl probably has experience swinging around a pipe or something during salvaging trips.

And in fairness, Luke was a farmer with ZERO potentially dangerous lifestyle elements to that point (with the exception of apparently shooting "wamp rats" with an armed flying vehicle somewhere along the line), yet he was able to at least hold his own against Vader for a fair amount of time before his first loss. With Vader's only real concern being that he probably didn't want to inflict a wound that would outright kill Luke in a single hit (which thanks to the cauterizing effect of light sabers, pretty much only means "don't stab a vital organ with the beam-sword and he will live").

Up to that point: Vader: Is a veteran of the Clone Wars and has been in many battles since then as well, and has fought against numerous Sith and/or Jedi up and has usually won or stalemated against them. Luke: Has been trained for a couple days by Obi-wan with no actual combat experience, and used a Yoda as a backpack for, what, a week at most?

In comparison, in Force Awakens we have a protagonist who is a salvager with unknown combat experience (likely centered around melee weapons if anything, though she also seems to know how to fly stuff), and just no training in the Force itself. Verses a sith guy who is frankly a mental mess himself for most of that film (and if not for a dramatically timed change in a scene's lighting, may well have even turned away from the dark side), and likely has very limited combat experience when compared to Vader, and may well have never even fought against another force user regardless of whatever Sith training he got up until then.

The guy is a NOOB compared to Vader and is suffering substantial instability issues throughout the Force Awakens. And he even has the same issue that Vader has on top of this, if not worse, where he likely doesn't want to kill her. As for her, even assuming zero prior combat experience, she differs from Luke in only about a week of some semblance of training.

Frankly, its more reasonable that the funny-nosed Sith wannabe who is very unstable would lose to a scavenger girl than it is that a highly experienced veteran of a war with lots of combat against actual lightsaber-wielding force users would even have a little trouble with a farmer kid who just sometimes flew an old fighter or something around shooting oversized rodents instead of just parrying the lad within the first few moves and lopping off a hand or something.
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