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.

Example Input: [284, 89, 95, 83, 153, 140, 26, 16, 101, 86, 132, 278, 274, 269, 215, 162, 165, 168, 27, 192], k=5
Example Output: 86

Example Input: [205, 55, 245, 283, 196, 16, 215, 287, 281, 249, 186, 194, 141, 254, 23, 10, 268, 26, 62, 75], k=2
Example Output: 16

Example Input: [99, 188, 61, 114, 72, 137, 222, 220, 19, 109, 140, 224, 286, 253, 226, 64, 258, 131, 170, 67], k=2
Example Output:
61