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.

Ex Input:
[230, 290, 126, 285, 289, 58, 263, 201, 163, 157, 189, 45, 135, 137, 185, 210, 222, 128, 260, 261], k=1

Ex Output:
45


Ex Input:
[296, 139, 50, 190, 196, 299, 77, 247, 204, 145, 227, 90, 246, 259, 23, 193, 233, 75, 276, 10], k=20

Ex Output:
299


Ex Input:
[18, 299, 42, 255, 77, 40, 162, 199, 228, 168, 23, 212, 268, 283, 25, 217, 208, 247, 43, 92], k=14

Ex Output:

217