How Does Your Day Match Up to the National Average?

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Time is a finite commodity, which makes knowing how to allocate it well all the more important. The New York Times looked into the daily habits of thousands of Americans and rounded up the results in a beautiful chart in ten-minute increments.

(Click the image above for a closer look, or just hit the link below for the interactive NYT graph.)

Not surprisingly, sleeping, eating, working, and watching television take up two-thirds of our average day. According to other statistics culled by The Times, at 6 p.m. most Americans are looking to finish up work, while at 8:50 p.m., four percent of Americans are traveling. And by 12:40 a.m., 87 percent of all Americans are in bed. As for time spent on personal care (which includes showering and grooming)? Americans spent an average of 47 seconds per day making themselves look and feel good.

All of this leads us to ask: How do these findings reflect your own habits? Do they mirror how you spend your time? If not, tell us what activities do take up most of your hours and how, if at all, that's changed over the years?