In this task, you are given a list of integers and an integer k. You need to find the kth smallest element in the input list and return that.

Input: Consider Input: [102, 43, 136, 220, 223, 84, 26, 32, 126, 133, 183, 116, 15, 56, 254, 18, 135, 68, 47, 243], k=8

Output: 68


Input: Consider Input: [180, 257, 70, 83, 264, 61, 245, 125, 50, 285, 121, 163, 79, 290, 54, 293, 170, 174, 64, 244], k=20

Output: 293


Input: Consider Input: [289, 196, 219, 50, 154, 45, 87, 64, 294, 234, 192, 13, 237, 202, 238, 141, 278, 67, 27, 246], k=13


Output: 219