Blink Facts

The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.

The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.

Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.

The average person blinks between 5 and 7 million times a year—that's once every few seconds throughout your waking hours!

Frogs cannot swallow without blinking.

A man with locked-in syndrome, named Jean-Dominique Bauby, wrote an entire book by blinking his left eyelid.