diff --git a/osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko/Difficulty/Evaluators/ColourEvaluator.cs b/osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko/Difficulty/Evaluators/ColourEvaluator.cs
index 30094dc869..912a02f30e 100644
--- a/osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko/Difficulty/Evaluators/ColourEvaluator.cs
+++ b/osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko/Difficulty/Evaluators/ColourEvaluator.cs
@@ -26,25 +26,25 @@ namespace osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko.Difficulty.Evaluators
         }
 
         /// <summary>
-        /// Evaluate the difficulty of the first note of a <see cref="MonoEncoding"/>.
+        /// Evaluate the difficulty of the first note of a <see cref="MonoStreak"/>.
         /// </summary>
-        public static double EvaluateDifficultyOf(MonoEncoding encoding)
+        public static double EvaluateDifficultyOf(MonoStreak encoding)
         {
             return sigmoid(encoding.Index, 2, 2, 0.5, 1) * EvaluateDifficultyOf(encoding.Parent!) * 0.5;
         }
 
         /// <summary>
-        /// Evaluate the difficulty of the first note of a <see cref="ColourEncoding"/>.
+        /// Evaluate the difficulty of the first note of a <see cref="AlternatingMonoPattern"/>.
         /// </summary>
-        public static double EvaluateDifficultyOf(ColourEncoding encoding)
+        public static double EvaluateDifficultyOf(AlternatingMonoPattern encoding)
         {
             return sigmoid(encoding.Index, 2, 2, 0.5, 1) * EvaluateDifficultyOf(encoding.Parent!);
         }
 
         /// <summary>
-        /// Evaluate the difficulty of the first note of a <see cref="CoupledColourEncoding"/>.
+        /// Evaluate the difficulty of the first note of a <see cref="RepeatingHitPatterns"/>.
         /// </summary>
-        public static double EvaluateDifficultyOf(CoupledColourEncoding encoding)
+        public static double EvaluateDifficultyOf(RepeatingHitPatterns encoding)
         {
             return 2 * (1 - sigmoid(encoding.RepetitionInterval, 2, 2, 0.5, 1));
         }
diff --git a/osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko/Difficulty/Preprocessing/Colour/Data/ColourEncoding.cs b/osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko/Difficulty/Preprocessing/Colour/Data/AlternatingMonoPattern.cs
similarity index 54%
rename from osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko/Difficulty/Preprocessing/Colour/Data/ColourEncoding.cs
rename to osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko/Difficulty/Preprocessing/Colour/Data/AlternatingMonoPattern.cs
index cd39a3d232..bb4ddc73d0 100644
--- a/osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko/Difficulty/Preprocessing/Colour/Data/ColourEncoding.cs
+++ b/osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko/Difficulty/Preprocessing/Colour/Data/AlternatingMonoPattern.cs
@@ -7,20 +7,20 @@ using osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko.Objects;
 namespace osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko.Difficulty.Preprocessing.Colour.Data
 {
     /// <summary>
-    /// Encodes a list of <see cref="MonoEncoding"/>s.
-    /// <see cref="MonoEncoding"/>s with the same <see cref="MonoEncoding.RunLength"/> are grouped together.
+    /// Encodes a list of <see cref="MonoStreak"/>s.
+    /// <see cref="MonoStreak"/>s with the same <see cref="MonoStreak.RunLength"/> are grouped together.
     /// </summary>
-    public class ColourEncoding
+    public class AlternatingMonoPattern
     {
         /// <summary>
-        /// <see cref="MonoEncoding"/>s that are grouped together within this <see cref="ColourEncoding"/>.
+        /// <see cref="MonoStreak"/>s that are grouped together within this <see cref="AlternatingMonoPattern"/>.
         /// </summary>
-        public readonly List<MonoEncoding> Payload = new List<MonoEncoding>();
+        public readonly List<MonoStreak> Payload = new List<MonoStreak>();
 
         /// <summary>
-        /// The parent <see cref="CoupledColourEncoding"/> that contains this <see cref="ColourEncoding"/>
+        /// The parent <see cref="RepeatingHitPatterns"/> that contains this <see cref="AlternatingMonoPattern"/>
         /// </summary>
-        public CoupledColourEncoding? Parent;
+        public RepeatingHitPatterns? Parent;
 
         /// <summary>
         /// Index of this encoding within it's parent encoding
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@ namespace osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko.Difficulty.Preprocessing.Colour.Data
         public int Index;
 
         /// <summary>
-        /// Determine if this <see cref="ColourEncoding"/> is a repetition of another <see cref="ColourEncoding"/>. This
+        /// Determine if this <see cref="AlternatingMonoPattern"/> is a repetition of another <see cref="AlternatingMonoPattern"/>. This
         /// is a strict comparison and is true if and only if the colour sequence is exactly the same.
         /// </summary>
-        public bool IsRepetitionOf(ColourEncoding other)
+        public bool IsRepetitionOf(AlternatingMonoPattern other)
         {
             return HasIdenticalMonoLength(other) &&
                    other.Payload.Count == Payload.Count &&
@@ -40,9 +40,9 @@ namespace osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko.Difficulty.Preprocessing.Colour.Data
         }
 
         /// <summary>
-        /// Determine if this <see cref="ColourEncoding"/> has the same mono length of another <see cref="ColourEncoding"/>.
+        /// Determine if this <see cref="AlternatingMonoPattern"/> has the same mono length of another <see cref="AlternatingMonoPattern"/>.
         /// </summary>
-        public bool HasIdenticalMonoLength(ColourEncoding other)
+        public bool HasIdenticalMonoLength(AlternatingMonoPattern other)
         {
             return other.Payload[0].RunLength == Payload[0].RunLength;
         }
diff --git a/osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko/Difficulty/Preprocessing/Colour/Data/MonoEncoding.cs b/osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko/Difficulty/Preprocessing/Colour/Data/MonoStreak.cs
similarity index 81%
rename from osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko/Difficulty/Preprocessing/Colour/Data/MonoEncoding.cs
rename to osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko/Difficulty/Preprocessing/Colour/Data/MonoStreak.cs
index 0e998696f9..26175d9559 100644
--- a/osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko/Difficulty/Preprocessing/Colour/Data/MonoEncoding.cs
+++ b/osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko/Difficulty/Preprocessing/Colour/Data/MonoStreak.cs
@@ -9,19 +9,19 @@ namespace osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko.Difficulty.Preprocessing.Colour.Data
 {
     /// <summary>
     /// Encode colour information for a sequence of <see cref="TaikoDifficultyHitObject"/>s. Consecutive <see cref="TaikoDifficultyHitObject"/>s
-    /// of the same <see cref="HitType"/> are encoded within the same <see cref="MonoEncoding"/>.
+    /// of the same <see cref="HitType"/> are encoded within the same <see cref="MonoStreak"/>.
     /// </summary>
-    public class MonoEncoding
+    public class MonoStreak
     {
         /// <summary>
-        /// List of <see cref="DifficultyHitObject"/>s that are encoded within this <see cref="MonoEncoding"/>.
+        /// List of <see cref="DifficultyHitObject"/>s that are encoded within this <see cref="MonoStreak"/>.
         /// </summary>
         public List<TaikoDifficultyHitObject> EncodedData { get; private set; } = new List<TaikoDifficultyHitObject>();
 
         /// <summary>
-        /// The parent <see cref="ColourEncoding"/> that contains this <see cref="MonoEncoding"/>
+        /// The parent <see cref="AlternatingMonoPattern"/> that contains this <see cref="MonoStreak"/>
         /// </summary>
-        public ColourEncoding? Parent;
+        public AlternatingMonoPattern? Parent;
 
         /// <summary>
         /// Index of this encoding within it's parent encoding
diff --git a/osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko/Difficulty/Preprocessing/Colour/Data/CoupledColourEncoding.cs b/osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko/Difficulty/Preprocessing/Colour/Data/RepeatingHitPattern.cs
similarity index 59%
rename from osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko/Difficulty/Preprocessing/Colour/Data/CoupledColourEncoding.cs
rename to osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko/Difficulty/Preprocessing/Colour/Data/RepeatingHitPattern.cs
index 3f692e9d3d..91b41b80e7 100644
--- a/osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko/Difficulty/Preprocessing/Colour/Data/CoupledColourEncoding.cs
+++ b/osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko/Difficulty/Preprocessing/Colour/Data/RepeatingHitPattern.cs
@@ -7,33 +7,33 @@ using System.Collections.Generic;
 namespace osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko.Difficulty.Preprocessing.Colour.Data
 {
     /// <summary>
-    /// Encodes a list of <see cref="ColourEncoding"/>s, grouped together by back and forth repetition of the same
-    /// <see cref="ColourEncoding"/>. Also stores the repetition interval between this and the previous <see cref="CoupledColourEncoding"/>.
+    /// Encodes a list of <see cref="AlternatingMonoPattern"/>s, grouped together by back and forth repetition of the same
+    /// <see cref="AlternatingMonoPattern"/>. Also stores the repetition interval between this and the previous <see cref="RepeatingHitPatterns"/>.
     /// </summary>
-    public class CoupledColourEncoding
+    public class RepeatingHitPatterns
     {
         /// <summary>
-        /// Maximum amount of <see cref="CoupledColourEncoding"/>s to look back to find a repetition.
+        /// Maximum amount of <see cref="RepeatingHitPatterns"/>s to look back to find a repetition.
         /// </summary>
         private const int max_repetition_interval = 16;
 
         /// <summary>
-        /// The <see cref="ColourEncoding"/>s that are grouped together within this <see cref="CoupledColourEncoding"/>.
+        /// The <see cref="AlternatingMonoPattern"/>s that are grouped together within this <see cref="RepeatingHitPatterns"/>.
         /// </summary>
-        public readonly List<ColourEncoding> Payload = new List<ColourEncoding>();
+        public readonly List<AlternatingMonoPattern> Payload = new List<AlternatingMonoPattern>();
 
         /// <summary>
-        /// The previous <see cref="CoupledColourEncoding"/>. This is used to determine the repetition interval.
+        /// The previous <see cref="RepeatingHitPatterns"/>. This is used to determine the repetition interval.
         /// </summary>
-        public readonly CoupledColourEncoding? Previous;
+        public readonly RepeatingHitPatterns? Previous;
 
         /// <summary>
-        /// How many <see cref="CoupledColourEncoding"/> between the current and previous identical <see cref="CoupledColourEncoding"/>.
+        /// How many <see cref="RepeatingHitPatterns"/> between the current and previous identical <see cref="RepeatingHitPatterns"/>.
         /// If no repetition is found this will have a value of <see cref="max_repetition_interval"/> + 1.
         /// </summary>
         public int RepetitionInterval { get; private set; } = max_repetition_interval + 1;
 
-        public CoupledColourEncoding(CoupledColourEncoding? previous)
+        public RepeatingHitPatterns(RepeatingHitPatterns? previous)
         {
             Previous = previous;
         }
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ namespace osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko.Difficulty.Preprocessing.Colour.Data
         /// Returns true if other is considered a repetition of this encoding. This is true if other's first two payloads
         /// have identical mono lengths.
         /// </summary>
-        private bool isRepetitionOf(CoupledColourEncoding other)
+        private bool isRepetitionOf(RepeatingHitPatterns other)
         {
             if (Payload.Count != other.Payload.Count) return false;
 
@@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ namespace osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko.Difficulty.Preprocessing.Colour.Data
         }
 
         /// <summary>
-        /// Finds the closest previous <see cref="CoupledColourEncoding"/> that has the identical <see cref="Payload"/>.
-        /// Interval is defined as the amount of <see cref="CoupledColourEncoding"/> chunks between the current and repeated encoding.
+        /// Finds the closest previous <see cref="RepeatingHitPatterns"/> that has the identical <see cref="Payload"/>.
+        /// Interval is defined as the amount of <see cref="RepeatingHitPatterns"/> chunks between the current and repeated encoding.
         /// </summary>
         public void FindRepetitionInterval()
         {
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ namespace osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko.Difficulty.Preprocessing.Colour.Data
                 return;
             }
 
-            CoupledColourEncoding? other = Previous;
+            RepeatingHitPatterns? other = Previous;
             int interval = 1;
 
             while (interval < max_repetition_interval)
diff --git a/osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko/Difficulty/Preprocessing/Colour/TaikoColourDifficultyPreprocessor.cs b/osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko/Difficulty/Preprocessing/Colour/TaikoColourDifficultyPreprocessor.cs
index 81ba219bc0..5ae659574d 100644
--- a/osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko/Difficulty/Preprocessing/Colour/TaikoColourDifficultyPreprocessor.cs
+++ b/osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko/Difficulty/Preprocessing/Colour/TaikoColourDifficultyPreprocessor.cs
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ namespace osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko.Difficulty.Preprocessing.Colour
         /// </summary>
         public static void ProcessAndAssign(List<DifficultyHitObject> hitObjects)
         {
-            List<CoupledColourEncoding> encodings = encode(hitObjects);
+            List<RepeatingHitPatterns> encodings = encode(hitObjects);
 
             // Assign indexing and encoding data to all relevant objects. Only the first note of each encoding type is
             // assigned with the relevant encodings.
@@ -33,14 +33,14 @@ namespace osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko.Difficulty.Preprocessing.Colour
                 // documentation.
                 for (int i = 0; i < coupledEncoding.Payload.Count; ++i)
                 {
-                    ColourEncoding colourEncoding = coupledEncoding.Payload[i];
+                    AlternatingMonoPattern colourEncoding = coupledEncoding.Payload[i];
                     colourEncoding.Parent = coupledEncoding;
                     colourEncoding.Index = i;
                     colourEncoding.Payload[0].EncodedData[0].Colour.ColourEncoding = colourEncoding;
 
                     for (int j = 0; j < colourEncoding.Payload.Count; ++j)
                     {
-                        MonoEncoding monoEncoding = colourEncoding.Payload[j];
+                        MonoStreak monoEncoding = colourEncoding.Payload[j];
                         monoEncoding.Parent = colourEncoding;
                         monoEncoding.Index = j;
                         monoEncoding.EncodedData[0].Colour.MonoEncoding = monoEncoding;
@@ -50,24 +50,24 @@ namespace osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko.Difficulty.Preprocessing.Colour
         }
 
         /// <summary>
-        /// Encodes a list of <see cref="TaikoDifficultyHitObject"/>s into a list of <see cref="CoupledColourEncoding"/>s.
+        /// Encodes a list of <see cref="TaikoDifficultyHitObject"/>s into a list of <see cref="RepeatingHitPatterns"/>s.
         /// </summary>
-        private static List<CoupledColourEncoding> encode(List<DifficultyHitObject> data)
+        private static List<RepeatingHitPatterns> encode(List<DifficultyHitObject> data)
         {
-            List<MonoEncoding> firstPass = encodeMono(data);
-            List<ColourEncoding> secondPass = encodeColour(firstPass);
-            List<CoupledColourEncoding> thirdPass = encodeCoupledColour(secondPass);
+            List<MonoStreak> firstPass = encodeMono(data);
+            List<AlternatingMonoPattern> secondPass = encodeColour(firstPass);
+            List<RepeatingHitPatterns> thirdPass = encodeCoupledColour(secondPass);
 
             return thirdPass;
         }
 
         /// <summary>
-        /// Encodes a list of <see cref="TaikoDifficultyHitObject"/>s into a list of <see cref="MonoEncoding"/>s.
+        /// Encodes a list of <see cref="TaikoDifficultyHitObject"/>s into a list of <see cref="MonoStreak"/>s.
         /// </summary>
-        private static List<MonoEncoding> encodeMono(List<DifficultyHitObject> data)
+        private static List<MonoStreak> encodeMono(List<DifficultyHitObject> data)
         {
-            List<MonoEncoding> encodings = new List<MonoEncoding>();
-            MonoEncoding? currentEncoding = null;
+            List<MonoStreak> encodings = new List<MonoStreak>();
+            MonoStreak? currentEncoding = null;
 
             for (int i = 0; i < data.Count; i++)
             {
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ namespace osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko.Difficulty.Preprocessing.Colour
                 // If this is the first object in the list or the colour changed, create a new mono encoding
                 if (currentEncoding == null || previousObject == null || (taikoObject.BaseObject as Hit)?.Type != (previousObject.BaseObject as Hit)?.Type)
                 {
-                    currentEncoding = new MonoEncoding();
+                    currentEncoding = new MonoStreak();
                     encodings.Add(currentEncoding);
                 }
 
@@ -91,19 +91,19 @@ namespace osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko.Difficulty.Preprocessing.Colour
         }
 
         /// <summary>
-        /// Encodes a list of <see cref="MonoEncoding"/>s into a list of <see cref="ColourEncoding"/>s.
+        /// Encodes a list of <see cref="MonoStreak"/>s into a list of <see cref="AlternatingMonoPattern"/>s.
         /// </summary>
-        private static List<ColourEncoding> encodeColour(List<MonoEncoding> data)
+        private static List<AlternatingMonoPattern> encodeColour(List<MonoStreak> data)
         {
-            List<ColourEncoding> encodings = new List<ColourEncoding>();
-            ColourEncoding? currentEncoding = null;
+            List<AlternatingMonoPattern> encodings = new List<AlternatingMonoPattern>();
+            AlternatingMonoPattern? currentEncoding = null;
 
             for (int i = 0; i < data.Count; i++)
             {
                 // Start a new ColourEncoding if the previous MonoEncoding has a different mono length, or if this is the first MonoEncoding in the list.
                 if (currentEncoding == null || data[i].RunLength != data[i - 1].RunLength)
                 {
-                    currentEncoding = new ColourEncoding();
+                    currentEncoding = new AlternatingMonoPattern();
                     encodings.Add(currentEncoding);
                 }
 
@@ -115,17 +115,17 @@ namespace osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko.Difficulty.Preprocessing.Colour
         }
 
         /// <summary>
-        /// Encodes a list of <see cref="ColourEncoding"/>s into a list of <see cref="CoupledColourEncoding"/>s.
+        /// Encodes a list of <see cref="AlternatingMonoPattern"/>s into a list of <see cref="RepeatingHitPatterns"/>s.
         /// </summary>
-        private static List<CoupledColourEncoding> encodeCoupledColour(List<ColourEncoding> data)
+        private static List<RepeatingHitPatterns> encodeCoupledColour(List<AlternatingMonoPattern> data)
         {
-            List<CoupledColourEncoding> encodings = new List<CoupledColourEncoding>();
-            CoupledColourEncoding? currentEncoding = null;
+            List<RepeatingHitPatterns> encodings = new List<RepeatingHitPatterns>();
+            RepeatingHitPatterns? currentEncoding = null;
 
             for (int i = 0; i < data.Count; i++)
             {
                 // Start a new CoupledColourEncoding. ColourEncodings that should be grouped together will be handled later within this loop.
-                currentEncoding = new CoupledColourEncoding(currentEncoding);
+                currentEncoding = new RepeatingHitPatterns(currentEncoding);
 
                 // Determine if future ColourEncodings should be grouped.
                 bool isCoupled = i < data.Count - 2 && data[i].IsRepetitionOf(data[i + 2]);
diff --git a/osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko/Difficulty/Preprocessing/Colour/TaikoDifficultyHitObjectColour.cs b/osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko/Difficulty/Preprocessing/Colour/TaikoDifficultyHitObjectColour.cs
index 41080eeb33..708ce8ecd0 100644
--- a/osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko/Difficulty/Preprocessing/Colour/TaikoDifficultyHitObjectColour.cs
+++ b/osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko/Difficulty/Preprocessing/Colour/TaikoDifficultyHitObjectColour.cs
@@ -13,16 +13,16 @@ namespace osu.Game.Rulesets.Taiko.Difficulty.Preprocessing.Colour
         /// <summary>
         /// The <see cref="MonoEncoding"/> that encodes this note, only present if this is the first note within a <see cref="MonoEncoding"/>
         /// </summary>
-        public MonoEncoding? MonoEncoding;
+        public MonoStreak? MonoEncoding;
 
         /// <summary>
         /// The <see cref="ColourEncoding"/> that encodes this note, only present if this is the first note within a <see cref="ColourEncoding"/>
         /// </summary>
-        public ColourEncoding? ColourEncoding;
+        public AlternatingMonoPattern? ColourEncoding;
 
         /// <summary>
         /// The <see cref="CoupledColourEncoding"/> that encodes this note, only present if this is the first note within a <see cref="CoupledColourEncoding"/>
         /// </summary>
-        public CoupledColourEncoding? CoupledColourEncoding;
+        public RepeatingHitPatterns? CoupledColourEncoding;
     }
 }