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: [205, 247, 183, 191, 87, 215, 184, 50, 138, 64, 95, 101, 54, 268, 258, 110, 147, 238, 149, 107], k=9

Solution: 138