Fastest way to select sets

[Christopher Thompson]

If I have a set with 10 items in it and I want to select a record if one or
more of the items are found, what is the fastest way to do this?

Is it better to create 10 TINYINT (or CHAR(0)?) fields and do "WHERE
field1=1 OR field3=1".

Or, is it faster to use the SET field type?

Or, some other way?