Totally depends
I passed after 45 hours so relatively I was 5 hours away from passing. I was busy crunching through my remaining exams to get them done.
That said, I am an EXTREMELY competitive person and the whole thing was some massive competition to me. I really, really went for it and spent every night studying for several hours.
Did I win some sort of competition ? Yeah, I completed in 45 hours which is faster than most people and so I won some sort of thing that I perceived to be important.
Did it make me a better pilot ? Nope, it meant I didn't savour what my instructor was telling me, I didn't take my time, I didn't ask any questions that I considered to be time wasting. I was watching a plane is born, I knew that an airway was 10NM across and so could answer the question. I didn't UNDERSTAND it though, and it was only when the pogram showed the airways on a map (routing from VOR to VOR) I got what I was saying. I couldn't even point at an airway on a map. There again I knew a flashing red light on a control tower meant return to stand. I simply knew the info to regurgitate. It was only later I started to understand what I was saying.
Those precious hours when you have an instructor next to you are extremely short. Soon you are making your own decisions and don't have that back up anymore. It was wrong of me to see it as < 45 hours = good, > 50 = bad.
Totally wrong way to go about flying, it's only now I look back and see it, actually, as a failure.At the time, there would've been absolutely no telling me that. Although I'm still very thankful that I had an excellent instructor who was absolutely awesome.