[JoshTriplett]

You can't uniquely identify one method as "best". In particular, there's a limit to how much you want to learn and use specialized commands versus a core set of broadly applicable commands. However, you can identify a set of broadly applicable commands that proficient users should know, and make sure they're at least using those, if not something even more specialized.

For instance, suppose you're sitting in the middle of a line, and you want to add a word five words to the right on the next line down. j5wi or /sometext[enter]i are both sensible ways to navigate. )wi might make sense if the insertion point is just after the end of a sentence. jwwwwwi is not horrific (given that visual counting may not be as fast) but probably deserves a warning as a reminder. jllllllllllllllllllllllllli is well worth warning about.