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 input: [163, 290, 90, 51, 96, 86, 282, 265, 10, 85, 91, 201, 68, 126, 26, 228, 229, 236, 31, 71], k=14
Example output: 201
Example explanation: 201 is the 14th smallest element in the input list.
Q: [126, 265, 104, 289, 284, 219, 273, 203, 48, 173, 46, 70, 110, 42, 148, 209, 131, 11, 71, 105], k=10
A:
126