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

Solution: 219