How quickly does the Ultimate Meter fill up?

The information on the Gamepedia is very lacking regarding the Ultimate Meter:

Ultimate abilities are powerful abilities only available to a hero once their Ultimate Meter has filled. Progress towards an Ultimate persists through death. The Ultimate Meter fills by killing/dealing damage to enemy heroes, though Mercy gradually fills hers through healing with her Caduceus Staff, and Torbjörn's turret generates Ultimate progress for him. The amount of Ultimate gained appears to vary between heroes, and kills seem to grant less Ultimate than dealing damage.

Nowhere does it explain how quickly the meter is gained, and what % of meter corresponds to damage. I know that in addition to that, meter is also passively gained for all heroes, albeit very slowly. What is the rate of that passive Ultimate meter? How does damage correspond to ultimate meter %?

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I've found the following sheet here which seems to have a lot of the information you are looking for. This lists the metered amounts per damage/healing and passive over time.

It's an offshoot of the main sheet here. I've posted the table below in case the page goes off line.

Hero 50% 100% DamagePer1% HealingPer1% DamageAmpedPer1%
Bastion 2:30 5:00 15
D. Va (Mech) 2:10 4:20 13
D. Va (Pilot) 0:30 1:00 3
Genji 2:00 4:00 12
Hanzo 2:00 4:00 12
Junkrat 2:05 4:10 12.5
Lúcio 3:10 6:20 19 15
McCree 2:00 4:00 12
Mei 1:40 3:20 10
Mercy 1:40 3:20 10 12.5 15
Pharah 2:30 5:00 15
Reaper 2:30 5:00 15
Reinhardt 1:50 3:40 11
Roadhog 1:50 3:40 11
Soldier: 76 2:30 5:00 15
Symmetra 1:20 2:40 8
Torbjörn 2:10 4:20 13
Tracer 1:30 3:00 9
Widowmaker 1:40 3:20 10
Winston 1:50 3:40 11
Zarya 2:30 5:00 15
Zenyatta 2:45 5:30 16.5 12.5

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Here is a different view of @Declan's information:

Hero Points Pts/Second Pts/Damage Pts/Healing Pts/Amp
Bastion 22500 75 15 0 0
D._Va_(Mech) 19500 75 15 0 0
D._Va_(Pilot) 4500 75 15 0 0
Genji 18000 75 15 0 0
Hanzo 18000 75 15 0 0
Junkrat 18750 75 15 0 0
Lúcio 28500 75 15 19 0
McCree 18000 75 15 0 0
Mei 15000 75 15 0 0
Mercy 15000 75 15 12 10
Pharah 22500 75 15 0 0
Reaper 22500 75 15 0 0
Reinhardt 16500 75 15 0 0
Roadhog 16500 75 15 0 0
Soldier:_76 22500 75 15 0 0
Symmetra 12000 75 15 0 0
Torbjörn 19500 75 15 0 0
Tracer 13500 75 15 0 0
Widowmaker 15000 75 15 0 0
Winston 16500 75 15 0 0
Zarya 22500 75 15 0 0
Zenyatta 24750 75 15 19.8 0

I fiddled until I reached 75, which gives round numbers basically everywhere except Zenyatta's pts/healing (which is within 1% of 20, so I will propose is a rounding error in observations).

Here the total points required to get an ultimate varies. Each hero earns 75 ultimate points/second (maybe 1 per server tick?), and 15 ultimate points per point of damage. Heros earn a variable amount of ultimate points per point of healing or damage amped.

Of interest to this theory is what happens to D.Va's ultimate meter when D.Va manually ejects. Is it reset to 0? Does it stay at the same percent? Does it increase by a factor of approx 4.33x? If the third, that is strong evidence for the above model.

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