codes make life easy bro, copying and pasting could be easily done with a few codes... the files your notepads and editors can't open... say 100GB of pubkeys in a single file, you can easily manipulate the data in the file even if you have 1GB RAM... the point is the things you are busy spending hours to calculate, you could just build a program that would run it 1 million times before you are done doing 3. that's why it's called coding or programming... you program it to your taste. you could almost leave your system running all on it's own if you have the programs needed without even opening anything as long as you've written the program to fulfil your choice of operation. double clicking is too slow and I bet if you knew coding, we wouldn't be stuck with puzzle 66 or puzzle 130 by now... You have the ideas needed but you're not flexible enough to write the programs needed to carry out the operations. That's why I said sometimes ideas might be half in the bearer's mind but it takes another mind thinking towards the same direction to make it a full idea...
you know all the divisions and G factors to multiply with and but if a code should handle those ideas you'd definitely be solving these puzzles like it's nothing... you don't necessarily need to learn the coding yourself if you don't want to, but just try to get closer to someone that knows how to translate these ideas to programs and you'll see for yourself how you won't be needing to spend hours dividing and multiplying keys manually. just always make sure there's an argparse or a command line args which is defined already in places where you need to constantly make some edits on the code so you don't have to always edit the code itself every time. we all are learning and until we move on to the other side of the world can we ever stop learning.
Well said! So far the ideas that Diagran has shared, I can easily resemble them with mine and I have had python scripts on all of em! the point is, with these methods, you are trying either to reduce the size of key, or break ECDSA in any form, like if you figure odd and even of a point without doubling it (we can know odd and even through doubling and adding G to doubled point makes it odd) but we can't figure it out with some other form or manipulation!! I tried lots and lots of python scripts on these and other various forms of calculus.... I am done with these coz I working on point at infinity, someone earlier referred two doors, I think the real door is behind point at infinity! Though I am not anywhere yet but figured few observations and working on it!
From my experience of write and testing scripts on ideas like that of diagran, it will still be optimal to test the idea manually instead of spending hours to fine tuning a script and again matching, calculating, validating various observations untillyou stuck at dead end!
I don't recommend building programms at initial stage of ideas, Even with long x and y coordinates decimals and hex string you'd be better off calculating and testing your ideas then to develop a program and test it!