// Slower C++ solution:


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#include <bits/stdc++.h>

#include <ext/pb_ds/assoc_container.hpp>

#include <ext/pb_ds/tree_policy.hpp>

#include <ext/rope>



#define _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE

#define _CRT_DISABLE_PERFCRIT_LOCKS



#define findOrder find_by_order

#define orderKey order_of_key



#define isOn(mask, i) (mask & (1 << i))

#define turn(mask, i) (mask |= (1 << i))

#define switch(mask, i) (mask &= ~(1 << i))

#define change(mask, i) (mask ^= (1 << i))

#define lowbit(mask) (mask & (-mask))

#define turnAll(mask, n) (mask = (1 << n) - 1)

#define switchLastBit(mask) (mask & (mask - 1))

#define turnLastZero(mask) (mask | (mask + 1))

#define modulo(x, mod) ((x) & (mod - 1))

#define log2(x) (31 - __builtin_clz(x))



#define mkp make_pair

#define pb push_back

#define pf push_front

#define eb emplace_back

#define ef emplace_front

#define ins insert

#define rsz resize

#define f first

#define s second

#define lb lower_bound

#define ub upper_bound



#define sz(x) ((int)x.size())

#define all(x) begin(x), end(x)

#define rall(x) rbegin(x), rend(x)



#define debug(x) (cerr << x << " ")



using namespace std;

using namespace __gnu_pbds;

using namespace __gnu_cxx;



typedef double db;

typedef long long ll;

typedef long double ld;

typedef unsigned long long ull;



typedef pair<int, int> ii;

typedef pair<ll,ll> pll;

typedef pair<ld,ld> pdb;

typedef pair<int, ii> tri;

typedef complex<ld> cd;



typedef vector<int> vi;

typedef vector<ii> vii;

typedef vector<ld> vdb;

typedef vector<cd> vcd;

typedef vector<ll> vll;

typedef vector<string> vs;

typedef vector<vll> matrix;



typedef tree<int, null_type, less<int>, rb_tree_tag, tree_order_statistics_node_update> indexed_tree;



const ll mod = 1e9+7;

const int maxn = 2e5+2;

const int pi = 2 * acos(0.0);

const db eps = 1e-9;



ll arr[maxn], dp[maxn];



int main()

{

    ios_base::sync_with_stdio(0);

    cin.tie(0); cout.tie(0);



    int n; cin >> n;



    for (int i = 1; i <= n; i++){

        cin >> arr[i];

    }



    memset(dp, 63, sizeof dp);



    dp[1] = 0;

    for (int i = 2; i <= n; i++){

        if (i <= 2){

            dp[i] = min(dp[i], dp[i - 1] + abs(arr[i] - arr[i - 1]));

        }

        else{

            dp[i] = min(dp[i], dp[i - 1] + abs(arr[i] - arr[i - 1]));

            dp[i] = min(dp[i], dp[i - 2] + abs(arr[i] - arr[i - 2]));

        }

    }



    cout << dp[n] << "\n";



    return 0;

}


// Faster C++ solution for the same problem (measured speedup: 2.5942026307211807x):
#include <bits/stdc++.h>



#define ll long long

#define ld long double

#define ull unsigned long long

#define endl "\n"

#define MohamedMotaz ios::sync_with_stdio(0); cin.tie(0); ios_base::sync_with_stdio(0);

#define f(a, b, c) for(int a = b; a < c; a++)

using namespace std;

const ll mod = 1e9 + 7;







//ll fact[1000001]; ll inv[1000001];

//ll primes[100007];

//ll arr[1000007];

//ll modPower(ll b, ll p) {

//	if (p == 0)

//		return 1;

//

//	ll halfpow = modPower(b, p / 2);

//	ll toReturn = (halfpow * halfpow) % mod;

//	if (p % 2)

//		toReturn = (toReturn * b) % mod;

//

//	return toReturn;

//}

//

//ll fastPower(ll b, ll p) {

//	if (p == 0)

//		return 1;

//	ll ans = fastPower(b, p / 2);

//	ans = (ans * ans);

//	if (p % 2 != 0)

//		ans = (ans * b);

//	return ans;

//}

//ll GcdRecursive(ll a, ll b) {

//	if (b == 0) return a;

//	return GcdRecursive(b, a % b);

//}

//ll modLCM(ll a, ll b) {

//	ll val = GcdRecursive(a, b);

//	ll tmp = ((a % mod) * (b % mod)) % mod;

//	ll finalVal = ((tmp % mod) * (arr[val] % mod)) % mod;

//	return finalVal;

//

//}

//ll LCM(ll a, ll b) {

//	return (a * b) / GcdRecursive(a, b);

//}

//void move1step(ll& a, ll& b, ll q) { // a and b by reference

//	ll c = a - q * b;

//	a = b;

//	b = c;

//}

//ll GcdIterative(ll a, ll b) {

//	while (b) move1step(a, b, a / b);

//	return a;

//}

//

//void pre(ll n) {

//

//	fact[0] = 1;

//	inv[0] = 1;

//

//	for (ll i = 1; i <= n; i++) {

//		fact[i] = (i * fact[i - 1]) % mod;

//		inv[i] = modPower(fact[i], mod - 2);

//		arr[i] = modPower(i, mod - 2);

//	}

//}

//

//ll npr(ll n, ll r) {

//	return ((fact[n] * inv[n - r]) % mod);

//}

//

//ll ncr(ll n, ll r) {

//	return ((((fact[n] * inv[n - r]) % mod) * inv[r]) % mod);

//}

//

//void sieve(ll val) {

//	memset(primes, 1, sizeof primes);

//	primes[0] = primes[1] = false;

//	for (int i = 2; i <= val; i++) {

//		if (primes[i]) {

//			for (int j = i * i; j <= val; j += i) {

//				primes[j] = 0;

//			}

//		}

//	}

//

//}





const ll N = 1e5 + 7;



ll x;

ll a[N] = {};

ll dp[N] = {};



int main()

{

    MohamedMotaz;

    

    cin >> x;



    f(i, 0, x) cin >> a[i];

    dp[0] = 0;

    dp[1] = abs(a[1] - a[0]);

    f(i, 2, x) dp[i] = min(dp[i - 1] + abs(a[i] - a[i - 1]), dp[i - 2] + abs(a[i] - a[i - 2]));

    cout << dp[x - 1];



   



}