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Practice easy and never get better. One must push themselves with regards to distance.
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Couldn't have said it better. For most half day classes (think CCW courses), the max distance will likely be 7 yards... maybe 15. These classes aren't really meant to teach marksmanship, though. They're designed to teach you the laws regarding deadly force and to make sure you can draw and fire a gun safely and (mostly) competently. Competence is subjective. I learned how to shoot in a bullseye manner. It taught me alot of the basic fundamentals that you need to master before you can start doing failure to stop drills (2 chest 1 head) with any amount of speed.
For me... I don't practice much further than 25 or 30 yards but a ton of my practice is at that distance. There are two ways to test your skill... add distance or increase speed. I focus on the latter more in training, but I don't sandbag by doing "kinda fast" failure to stop drills at 5 yards. I'm doing them with some speed at 15 and 20 yards. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. You crawl, walk, and then run. We all (I hope) know this. I do think alot of shooters, however, learn to crawl, get competent at walking, but never try to run. There's a lot of value to practicing at 25+ yards, along with shooting while moving, doing remmedial action drills, shooting two targets limited engagement time (keep cutting the time down until you're not making hits every time), etc.