In communications and signal processing area, a number of least mean square adaptive algorithms have been used because of simplicity and robustness. However the LMS algorithm is known to have slow and non-uniform convergence. Various variable step size LMS adaptive algorithms have been introduced and researched to speed up the convergence rate. A variable step size LMS algorithm using the error difference for updating the step size is proposed. Compared with other algorithms, simulation results show that the proposed LMS algorithm has a fast convergence. The theoretical performance of the proposed algorithm is also analyzed for the steady state.