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With my fingers on the home row, index finger rubbing that little knob on F (Dvorak: U), my pinky can comfortably be on A or move down to the right third of Left Shift. Moving it to the side further creates an uncomfortable tension in my hand, which is also the reason I'm not so keen on using Right Shift.
One other thing about Dvorak, is that it moves {} even further up, replacing -=. There is a version called "programmer Dvorak" but I refuse to learn it. It switches number keys around, making symbols unshifted (and brackets more comfortable) — which sounds like something you want — but it also makes a complete mess of digits: http://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak/ It's logical, yet, somehow, beyond perverted.