// Slower C++ solution:
#include <bits/stdc++.h>

using namespace std;



typedef long double LD;

typedef long long ll;

typedef map<int,int> mii;

typedef pair<int,int> pii;

typedef vector<pii> vpii;



#define pb              push_back

#define mp              make_pair

#define F               first

#define S               second

#define mod             1000000007

#define INF             2147483647

#define Endl            "\n"

#define FasterIO        ios_base::sync_with_stdio(0);cin.tie(0); cout.tie(0) ;

#define precision(a)    cout << fixed << setprecision(a)

#define bug(a,b)        cout<<a<<"\t"<<b<<"\n";

#define Case(a,b)       cout<<"Case "<<a<<": "<<b<<"\n";

#define reset(a,b)      memset(a,b,sizeof(a));

#define srt(a)      sort(a.begin(),a.end());



const int MAXN = 1000005;

const int SQRTN = 1003;

const int LOGN = 22;

const double PI=acos(-1);

const int sz=1e5+9;



int strtoint(string str){

    stringstream ss(str);

    int x = 0;

    ss >> x ;

    return x ;

}

string intostr(int x){

    stringstream ss;

    ss << x;

    string str = ss.str();

    return str;

}

void rem(string &s, const string &c) {

	auto pos = s.find(c);

	if (pos == string::npos) {

		cout << -1 << endl;

		exit(0);

	}

	s.erase(0, pos + 1);

}

void println (int n){

    cout<<n<<"\n";

}

void printvec(vector <int> &a){

    for (int i=0;i<a.size();i++){

        cout<<a[i]<<" ";

    }

    cout<<"\n";

}



void printgraph(vector <int> g[],int e){

    for (int i=0;i<e;i++){

        cout<<i<<" --> ";

        for (int j=0;j<g[i].size();j++){

            cout<<g[i][j]<<" ";

        }

        cout<<"\n";

    }

}



void printmap (map <int,int> &mymap){

    for (auto itr = mymap.begin(); itr != mymap.end(); ++itr) {

        cout << '\t' << itr->first

             << '\t' << itr->second << '\n';

    }

    cout << "\n";

}



int n,x,arr[sz],dp[sz];





int rec (int i){

    if (i==n) return 0;

    if (dp[i]!=-1) return dp[i];

    int left = abs(arr[i]-arr[i+1])+rec(i+1);

    int right = INF;

    if (i+2<=n){

        right = abs(arr[i]-arr[i+2])+rec (i+2);

    }

    return dp[i]= min(left,right);

}





void solve(){



    cin>>n;

    reset (dp,-1);

    for (int i=1;i<=n;i++)cin>>arr[i];





    cout << rec (1) << Endl;



    //printvec(v);

}





int main(){

    //FasterIO;



    solve();

    return 0;

}


// Faster C++ solution for the same problem (measured speedup: 1.4024606129916775x):
#include <bits/stdc++.h>

 

using namespace std;

 

typedef long long ll;

typedef vector<ll> vi;

typedef long double td;

typedef vector<td> vd;

typedef pair<ll,ll> ii;

typedef vector<ii> vii; typedef vector<bool> vb;

#define FIN ios::sync_with_stdio(0);cin.tie(0);cout.tie(0)

#define forr(i, a, b) for(ll i = ll(a); i < (ll)(b); i++)

#define forn(i, n) forr(i, 0, n)

#define pb push_back

#define mp make_pair

#define all(c) (c).begin(),(c).end()

#define DBG(x) cerr << #x << " = " << (x) << endl

#define show(v,n) cerr << #v << " = "; forn(i,n) cerr << v[i] << " "; cerr << endl;

#define esta(x,c) ((c).find(x) != (c).end())

#define RAYA cerr << "===============================" << endl

int MAXN = 500005;





ll solve(vector <int> &v, int n, int k)

{

	ll MAXN = (ll)(1e18);

	vector <ll> dp(n,MAXN);

	dp[0]=0;

	forr(i,1,n)

	{

		forr(j,1,k+1)

		{

			if(i-j < 0) break;

			dp[i]=min(dp[i],dp[i-j]+abs(v[i]-v[i-j]));

		}

	}

	return dp[n-1];

}

 

int main()

{ 	

	FIN;

	#ifdef input

		freopen("test1.txt", "r", stdin);

	#endif



	int n;

	cin >> n;

	vector <int> v(n);

	forn(i,n) cin >> v[i];

	cout << solve(v,n,2) << endl;

    return 0;

}