The invention relates to a non-contact laser detecting instrument for displaying the roughness of a steel ball, which comprises a base (1), a steel ball adjusting device (2), a swing adjusting device (3), a measuring mandrel (4), a limiting device (6), a photoelectric sensor (7), a swing receiving device (8), a laser tube, a laser tube adjusting device (9) and a shell (10). In the non-contact laser detecting instrument provided by the invention, a laser speckle principle is adopted on a measuring principle; the mechanical structure of the detecting instrument has the key points that the incidence speckle of the laser tube, the top end of the steel ball and the gyration center of the sensor adjusting device are adjusted to one point, i.e. three points are on the same line; simultaneously, the reflected speckles are right positioned in the right center of a photonuclear sensor; and the whole light path is in a good darkroom protection mode, and errors are reduced to the minimum under the condition that the whole light path is in the good darkroom protection mode, thereby reaching measurement standards. The non-contact laser detecting instrument provided by the invention has the advantages of high measuring speed, no damage to the measured steel ball (5), simplified structure of the detecting instrument, cost reduction, appearance improvement, simple and convenient operation and strong detection reliability.