Nike Vaporfly Sneaker
Which Nike Vaporfly gives off the strongest hype signal?
The Hypescore reads the signal strength of every Nike Vaporfly colorway. Community votes, resale movement, search demand and scarcity together decide how much hype a sneaker gives off, expressed in GSv. On the left the strongest hype signals, on the right the colorways just being picked up and rising fast.
About Nike Vaporfly
Nike Vaporfly
Rarely has a single shoe turned a sport so upside down. When Nike put the first Vaporfly under marathoners in 2016, it combined two things that had not gone together before: a thick layer of extremely light, resilient foam, and a stiff carbon plate running through the middle. The result was so much faster than the competition that the athletics world had to rewrite the rules within a few years.
The early models visibly show their purpose. The upper is a thin knitted sock with no excess material, the heel tapers into a slanted cut point with only a pull-tab label, and the sole swells under the forefoot into a thick wedge that curves sharply upward at the front. Anything that does not contribute to forward motion has been left off.
The regulations followed inevitably. World Athletics set limits on sole thickness for road races and ruled that a shoe must be generally available before the race, precisely to prevent a repeat of the early years when only contract runners had the model. Nearly all road world records since have been run in shoes from this generation, from Nike and from the brands that adopted the concept.
The name has by now become a family. The current race models are officially called ZoomX Vaporfly and are listed on the page for the Nike ZoomX Vaporfly NEXT%; the foam and cushioning technology behind them come from the same source described on the Nike Zoom page.
On this page you can see which versions of the Nike Vaporfly are hottest right now according to the Hypescore, from what price they can be found, and in how many shops they are in stock.