Disclaimer: I am part of remoteinterview.io team.
Disclaimer: I am part of remoteinterview.io team.
Few people challenge this axiom of marketing, but the real insight lies in identifying what's "talking down". It's easy to assume that you must intend to talk down to your audience in order to fall in to this trap, but it's just as easy for down-talking elements to enter your marketing organically.
"This guy is fast" talks down to your audience because it assumes that there is no more subtle way to illustrate the rating feature, which can also be understood by your audience.
You should change this ASAP. The people conducting coding interviews are often programmers, and this overly simplistic means of evaluation will make them feel objectified in a big way. They will associate that objectification with this tool, and they will avoid it at all cost.
The "upvote" I noticed was something along the lines of "very good string manipulation".
The audience of course is people who want to hire "coders" and not simply anyone that might fall under that description. Wouldn't they be doing themselves a disservice by assuming that none of their target market are interested in how fast a candidate can arrive at and implement a solution?
Perhaps you're being a bit too touchy? It is of course a normal human response to being put under the spotlight in such a way as to reduce your worth to basic metrics.
None of the above is to say that I don't think this tool has a place.