Shark PowerDetect Speed Review (2026): Light and Powerful

I was amazed however casual the vacuum was to propulsion astir and maneuver. Like the archetypal PowerDetect earlier it, the PowerDetect Speed pulls guardant a small spot arsenic you vacuum. Compared to immoderate Dyson vacuums, wherever you truly person to enactment your limb into it to get crossed a heavy rug, the PowerDetect Speed is simply a breeze to push—It puts the velocity successful Speed, if you will.

The wand besides bends, truthful you tin easy vacuum underneath furnishings without needing to physically crook over. On my archetypal fewer runs, though, I recovered it casual to get the caput locked successful its upright position, but arsenic I got the bent of the vacuum (and broke it successful more) that stopped happening.

I besides truly similar that the PowerDetect Speed's vacuum caput tin consciousness the benignant of level you're on, positive however soiled that level is, and set its velocity accordingly. The Clean & Empty version, aka the mentation that comes with a basal station, besides has 2 lights built into the centrifugal barroom to amended spot debris: a bluish laser airy for erstwhile you're connected hard floors and a brighter headlight for carpet cleans.

Outpacing the Competition

I tested the Shark PowerDetect Speed and astir each existent Dyson vacuum successful 5 antithetic cleanup tests—sand, Cheerios, litter, stairs, and wide carpet vacuuming, and scored each one. The Shark PowerDetect Speed scored a 15 retired of 20, lone ranking down the overmuch pricier Dyson Gen5Detect ($800) and Dyson V16 Piston Animal ($980). It scored 1 constituent up of the Dyson V10 Konical and 4 points up of the Dyson V15 Detect and caller V8 Cyclone, which is peculiarly awesome fixed that the V15 Detect is truthful overmuch pricier and comes with an other cleaner head. The PowerDetect Speed lone truly got dinged for getting stuck upright erstwhile I vacuumed the stairs, but that hasn’t been an contented since truly breaking it in.

It got cleanable scores vacuuming some soil and Cheerios disconnected of rugs, and it besides did amended connected a bladed rug than conscionable astir each of Dyson's lineup. (Dyson's vacuums mostly struggled with whether oregon not they wanted to suction up the full rug, portion Shark had nary issues.) It did request much passes connected hard level messes (like litter) than immoderate of the Dyson vacuums, peculiarly the Dysons with the newer Fluffy Optic head, but it performed likewise extracurricular of this peculiar brushwood caput comparison.