User blog comment:Kagimizu/Sonic's Strongest/@comment-2116776-20110715000152/@comment-1272757-20110715180932

Basically, but more detail than that.
 * Traveling speed of the beam in miles per hour.
 * How much power it has and how much damage it can do.
 * Size of beam.
 * Approximate amount of lag time between each blast.

Stuff like that.