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: [266, 294, 211, 260, 50, 268, 74, 228, 42, 13, 105, 80, 143, 183, 277, 296, 134, 26, 36, 60], k=4

Solution: 42