| Event | TimeTaken (Seconds) |
| One beat of a fly's wing | (1/1,000 second) 0.001 |
| Flash of lightning | (1/1,000 second) 0.001 |
| One beat of hummingbird's wing | (80 times a second )0.0125 |
| Mouse heartbeat | (10.8 times a second) 0.09 |
| Blink of a human eye | 0.33 |
| Human heartbeat | 1.0 |
| Light reaching Earth from the Moon | 1.26 |
| Land speed record: car Thrust SSC travelling 1 km | 2.9 |
| Light reaching Earth from the Sun | 497(8 minutes 17 seconds) |