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: [163, 290, 90, 51, 96, 86, 282, 265, 10, 85, 91, 201, 68, 126, 26, 228, 229, 236, 31, 71], k=14
Example solution: 201
Example explanation: 201 is the 14th smallest element in the input list.

Problem: [197, 137, 127, 76, 283, 205, 136, 106, 207, 194, 168, 251, 57, 164, 75, 151, 176, 212, 299, 297], k=13

Solution: 197