This inquiry explored whether bilingual individuals display superior executive control compared to monolingual participants. Findings are mixed, with studies displaying benefit, drawback, or no difference between bilingual and monolingual speakers. This inquiry employed various experimental conditions to explore implicit learning, resistance to interference, monitoring, and switching, independently. In addition, it matched the monolingual and bilingual participants on baseline reply time. Bilingual participants showed faster implicit learning, greater resistance to interference, more efficient switching compared to monolingual participants. The groups did not diverge in monitoring. In conclusion, depending on task complexity and on the target executive control component, there are different patterns of bilingual benefit, beyond the global faster processing speed documented in prior studies. Bilingual young adults displayed more efficient adaptations of the cognitive system in reply to changes in task demands.