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