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: [109, 49, 80, 107, 95, 258, 273, 265, 120, 233, 92, 199, 173, 230, 77, 214, 292, 155, 185, 232], k=2

Solution: 77