My deadlift is by far my weakest exercise. At the end of the summer when I was at my peak my max was only like 235. Now that I'm trying to comeback off the couch I'm struggling with 185.

Should I just do a standard 5x5 or try something like weird 5x1?

And what do you guys do?

I dont deadlift at all, but when I did it was 5 reps 3 sets

Right now two sets of four twice a week.

I warm up 135x10, 225x10 and then do sets of 5 progressively until failure (starting at 315 and adding 10s). My grip in my left hand fails at about my 3rd set of 365, but with straps I can manage 405x5 np (just got straps and worked my way up to that, probably can do quite a bit more). If grip is failing I would recommend straps, but either way sets of 5 working your way up to failure should help. I would also switch up styles and do traditional, sumo, and Romanian. The trap bar is also easier and should still help build strength

Few warm up sets and then 5x5 working sets.

As many as necessary.

3-4 sets of 2-3

6-8 worksets with 2-3reps in each.

6 X 1 master race

Don't deadlift anymore, useless for me other than decent strength gains.
used to do 5 sets of 3 though.