package main

import (
	"bufio"
	"bytes"
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"os"
	"strconv"
	"sort"
	"math"
)

// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

// IO helper functions

// Returns next token from input.  It must be initialized by SetInput()
// before the first call.
var nextToken func() ([]byte, error)
var nextLine func() ([]byte, error)

// Holds a buffer for output.  It must be initialized by SetOutput().
// All IO fucntions (read*() and [e]print*()) should write to OutputWriter
// instead of this.
var OutputBuffer *bufio.Writer

// Holds an io.Writer.  It must be initialized by SetOutput()
var OutputWriter io.Writer

// Set IO functions for interactive input/output.
func SetInteractive(w io.Writer, r io.Reader) {
	SetUnbefferedInput(r)
	OutputBuffer = nil
	OutputWriter = w
}

// Setup OutputBuffer and OutputWriter.
func SetOutput(w io.Writer) {
	OutputBuffer = bufio.NewWriter(w)
	OutputWriter = OutputBuffer
}

// Flushes OutputBuffer
func Flush() {
	if OutputBuffer != nil {
		OutputBuffer.Flush()
	}
}

// Returns true if c is a white space
func IsSpace(c byte) bool {
	switch c {
	case '\t', '\n', '\v', '\f', '\r', ' ':
		return true
	}
	return false
}

func IsNewLine(c byte) bool {
	switch c {
	case '\n', '\r':
		return true
	}
	return false
}

// Setup nextToken with input buffer.
func SetInput(r io.Reader) {
	buf := new(bytes.Buffer)
	var b []byte

	var i int
	rest := func() ([]byte, error) {
		for i < len(b) && IsSpace(b[i]) {
			i++
		}
		if i == len(b) {
			return nil, io.ErrUnexpectedEOF
		}
		j := i
		for i < len(b) && !IsSpace(b[i]) {
			i++
		}
		return b[j:i], nil
	}
	initial := func() ([]byte, error) {
		io.Copy(buf, r)
		b = buf.Bytes()
		nextToken = rest
		return rest()
	}
	nextToken = initial

	restLn := func() ([]byte, error) {
		for i < len(b) && IsNewLine(b[i]) {
			i++
		}
		if i == len(b) {
			return nil, io.ErrUnexpectedEOF
		}
		j := i
		for i < len(b) && !IsNewLine(b[i]) {
			i++
		}
		return b[j:i], nil
	}

	initialLn := func() ([]byte, error) {
		io.Copy(buf, r)
		b = buf.Bytes()
		nextLine = restLn
		return restLn()
	}
	nextLine = initialLn
}

// Setup nextToken without input buffer.
func SetUnbefferedInput(r io.Reader) {
	buf := bufio.NewReader(r)
	var b []byte

	var i int
	nextToken = func() ([]byte, error) {
		var err error
		if i == len(b) {
			b, err = buf.ReadBytes('\n')
			if err != nil {
				return nil, err
			}
			i = 0
			j := len(b) - 1
			for 0 <= j && IsSpace(b[j]) {
				j--
			}
			b = b[0 : j+1]
		}
		for i < len(b) && IsSpace(b[i]) {
			i++
		}
		j := i
		for i < len(b) && !IsSpace(b[i]) {
			i++
		}
		if i == j {
			return nil, io.ErrUnexpectedEOF
		}
		return b[j:i], nil
	}
}

// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

// Reads next token and return it as string
func reads() string {
	b, err := nextToken()
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	return string(b)
}

// Read next line as string
func readsln() string {
	b, err := nextLine()
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	return string(b)
}

// Reads next token and return it as int
func readi() int {
	i, err := strconv.ParseInt(reads(), 10, 64)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err.Error())
	}

	return int(i)
}

// Reads next token and return it as float64
func readf() float64 {
	f, err := strconv.ParseFloat(reads(), 64)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err.Error())
	}
	return f
}

// ReadIntSlice returns an integer slice that has n integers.
func readislice(n int) []int {
	b := make([]int, n)
	for i := 0; i < n; i++ {
		b[i] = readi()
	}
	return b
}

// set up IO functions
func init() {
	// for non-interactive
	SetInput(os.Stdin)
	SetOutput(os.Stdout)

	// Enable below when interactive.  Its ok to leave above intact.
	// SetInteractive(os.Stdout, os.Stdin)
}

// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

const (
	MOD = 1000000007
	INF = math.MaxInt64
)

func min(a, b int) int {
	if a < b {
		return a
	}
	return b
}

func max(a, b int) int {
	if a < b {
		return b
	}
	return a
}

func abs(a int) int {
	if a < 0 {
		return -a
	}
	return a
}

func pow(p, q int) int {
    return int(math.Pow(float64(p), float64(q)))
}

// egcd(a, b) returns d, x, y:
//   d is gcd(a,b)
//   x, y are  integers that satisfy ax + by = d
func egcd(a, b int) (int, int, int) {
	if b == 0 {
		return a, 1, 0
	}
	d, x, y := egcd(b, a%b)
	return d, y, x - a/b*y
}

func gcd(a, b int) int {
	d, _, _ := egcd(a, b)
	return d
}

func lcm(a,b int) int{
  return a * b / gcd(a, b)
}

func isInteger(x float64) bool {
    return math.Floor(x) == x
}

// lower_bound
func bisectLeft(a []int, x int) int {
    return sort.SearchInts(a, x)
}

// upper_bound
func bisectRight(a []int, x int) int {
    return sort.Search(len(a), func(i int) bool { return a[i] > x })
}

func main() {
	defer Flush()

	N := readi()
	H := readislice(N)

  	// DP テーブル
	dp := make([]int, N+1)

	// DP テーブル全体を初期化 (最小化問題なので INF に初期化)
	for i := range dp {
		dp[i] = int(INF)
	}

	// 初期条件
	dp[0] = 0
	dp[1] = 0

	// ループ
	for i := 2; i <= N; i++ {
		if dp[i-1] + abs(H[i-2] - H[i-1]) <= dp[i] {
			dp[i] = dp[i-1] + abs(H[i-2] - H[i-1])
		}

		if i == 2{
			continue
		}

		if dp[i-2] + abs(H[i-3] - H[i-1]) <= dp[i] {
			dp[i] = dp[i-2] + abs(H[i-3] - H[i-1])
		}
	}

	fmt.Println(dp[N])
}



Measured memory_bytes: 3712