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.

[278, 41, 208, 239, 246, 23, 268, 17, 96, 253, 248, 177, 244, 15, 280, 60, 59, 257, 199, 123], k=13
244

[137, 90, 208, 53, 235, 288, 134, 195, 234, 31, 215, 258, 192, 296, 20, 135, 106, 166, 243, 253], k=3
53

[43, 55, 172, 198, 81, 270, 159, 285, 28, 15, 130, 245, 37, 134, 174, 39, 146, 94, 158, 82], k=2

28