Searching within column with mysql LIKE miltiple times

Question

I need to search a column for a string ,multiple times for variation of the same string, so i did this

SELECT * 
FROM `users` 
WHERE user = 'king'
OR alias = 'king'
OR aliases LIKE '%,king%'
OR aliases LIKE '%king,%'
OR aliases LIKE '%king,%'

the column aliases will contains words separated with comma e.g king,queen,knight etc But because like itself is slow, i am wondering if there is any way i can optimize this query

Answer 1

try this:

SELECT * 
FROM `users` 
WHERE user = 'king'
OR alias = 'king'
OR FIND_IN_SET ('king', aliases)>0;