Hrm... I was about to suggest that for timing just the query (and not output/data transfer time) using explain analyze, but then I remembered that explain analyze can incur some non-trivial overhead with the timing calls. Is there a way to run the query but have psql ignore the output? If so, you could use \timing.
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