Show top running processes by the number of open filehandles they have

lsof | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head
I think I could cut down the number of pipes here, any suggestions?
Sample Output 
sten@fenris:~$ sudo lsof | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head
   3002 php5-cgi
    122 master
    116 sshd
    115 freeswitc
     82 mysqld
     60 ssh
     60 slapd
     52 lighttpd
     47 beam.smp
     43 inet_geth

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By: sud0er
2009-02-19 19:45:09
awk sort uniq
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