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:
[98, 104, 201, 129, 60, 241, 81, 101, 256, 13, 217, 268, 127, 108, 184, 11, 230, 24, 79, 130], k=19

Ex Output:
256

Ex Input:
[87, 249, 118, 103, 114, 204, 124, 12, 292, 17, 197, 239, 189, 219, 93, 205, 149, 260, 41, 272], k=20

Ex Output:
292

Ex Input:
[55, 246, 14, 54, 103, 101, 213, 70, 183, 200, 250, 97, 221, 282, 19, 252, 228, 59, 13, 204], k=13

Ex Output:
204