That may depnd on your shower fitting, water pressure, water tempreature and so on. A new New Zealand designed shower head called the Methven Satin Jet is proving effective at 7.6 litre per minute....
I'm guessing that nearly all sprinklers vary, along with the amount of pressure and volume of your water hose, so we use what we call a bucket test. You start your sprinkler, put it in a 5 gallon...