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.

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

[124, 118, 236, 227, 74, 148, 136, 33, 121, 253, 282, 246, 229, 186, 181, 235, 146, 67, 298, 244], k=4
118

[217, 14, 159, 297, 144, 218, 15, 173, 258, 143, 154, 90, 132, 294, 284, 146, 114, 68, 237, 118], k=3
68