Fastest note entry

Clearly, it's my way. And you will get the same answer from several people, each of whom use a different way of doing it. To my knowledge, no direct comparison has been carried out and it would be pretty meaningless to the individual who has their preferences.

If you wanted me to advise the best technique to learn, then use a PC with a big monitor, 102 to 105 key keyboard with big, clicky keys. Left hand enters notes (A thru G) and right uses NumPad to enter durations. Use, or create, shortcuts for common actions (insert accidental, staccato, acciaccatura, change beaming behaviour) and learn all the existing shortcuts for navigating to different notes and for adding notes to a chord and for changing voices.

Use that which requires the least amount of physical as well as mental activity. These are contingent upon the user's mental framework and available devices, hand-coordination, etc, and therefore can't be answered specifically when asked in a generic fashion.

Main suggestion is to learn to know how the program works. Know your available options and know what and under what circumstances it does what, and learn to gain a one-to-one correlation between what you want and what are the results with minimal effort/thinking. Minimization of effort! This might even include alteration of the code-base...

"Good luck"

Keyboard. Letters for notes, digits for duration.

For Guitar TAB, keyboard with:
(1) Numeric keys for fret numbers
(2) Arrow keys for stave position moves
(3) Letter keys for note durations of:
• W - Whole
• M - Minim
• C - Crotchet
• Q - Quaver
• S - SemiQuaver
• O/P - standard keyboard shortcuts retained for half/double duration
(4) Ctrl-Up/Down for moving a note between strings
(5) Alt-Up/Down for moving a note up/down in semitones