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

#include <algorithm>

#include <iostream>

#include <iomanip>

#include <cstdio>

#include <cstdlib>

#include <cmath>

#include <cstring>

#include <vector>

#include <string>

#include <climits>

#include <map>

#include <set>

#include <stack>

#include <queue>

#include <deque>

#include <stdio.h>

//#define int long long

using namespace std;

#define loop(n) for(int i=0;i<n;i++)

#define endl '\n'

#define OnlineJudgec

#define F first

#define S second

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

#define clr(v,d ) memset(v, d, sizeof(v))

typedef long long ll;

typedef vector<int> vi;

void init()

{

    cin.tie(0);

    cin.sync_with_stdio(0);

    cout.tie(0);

    #ifdef OnlineJudge

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

    freopen("output.txt","w",stdout);

    #endif

}

ll S(ll x){ll s = 0;while(x){s += x % 10;x /= 10;}return s;} /// sum of digits.

ll powe(ll a , ll n){if(n == 1)return a;return a * powe(a ,n-1);}

ll com(int n,int m){ll z = 1;for(int i = 0; i < m;i++){z = z * ( n - i) / (i + 1) ;}return z;}

int dx[] = {1,-1,0,0};

int dy[] = {0,0,1,-1};

int dr[] = {0,0,0,1,1,1,-1,-1,-1};

int dc[] ={-1,0,1,-1,0,1,-1,0,1};

/// <<------------------------------------------------------------------------------>>

const int mx = 100009;

int n;

int arr[mx];

int dp[mx];

int solve(int idx)

{

    if(idx == n-1)return 0;

    int &rst = dp[idx];

    if(~rst) return rst;

    int choice = 1e9 , choice2 = 1e9;

    if(idx + 1 < n)

        choice = solve(idx+1) + abs(arr[idx] - arr[idx + 1]);

    if(idx + 2 < n)

       choice2 = solve(idx+2) + abs(arr[idx] - arr[idx + 2]);

    return rst = min(choice , choice2);

}

/// <<------------------------------------------------------------------------------>>

int main()

{

    init();

    cin >> n;

    loop(n) cin >> arr[i];

    clr(dp,-1);

    cout<<solve(0);

}


// Faster C++ solution for the same problem (measured speedup: 1.3936561806610095x):
#include<bits/stdc++.h>



#define  ll         long long

#define  llu        unsigned long long

#define  mod        1000000007

#define  pi         ((2.0)*acos(0.0))

#define  pb         push_back

#define  pf         push_front

#define  eb         emplace_back

#define  mp         make_pair

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

#define  X          first

#define  Y          second



/*loop*/

#define  fr(i,m,n)   for(ll i=m;i<n;++i)



/*output shortcuts*/

#define  nl         "\n"

#define  Yes        cout<<"Yes\n"

#define  yes        cout<<"yes\n"

#define  YES        cout<<"YES\n"

#define  No         cout<<"No\n"

#define  no         cout<<"no\n"

#define  NO         cout<<"NO\n"



ll a[10000000];



/*ll c(ll i,ll n)

{

    if(i>n)

        return 0;



    return abs(a[i]-a[i+1]);

}*/

using namespace std;

int main()

{

    ios::sync_with_stdio(0);

    cin.tie(0);

    cout.tie(0);



    ll n;

    cin>>n;



    ll a[n];

    fr(i,0,n)

    cin>>a[i];



    ll dp[n];

    dp[n-1]=0;



    for(ll i=n-2; i>=0; i--)

    {

       if(i+2 < n) dp[i]= min( (dp[i+1] + abs(a[i]-a[i+1]) ) , (dp[i+2] + abs(a[i]-a[i+2]) ) );

       else

        dp[i] = dp[i+1] + abs(a[i] - a[i+1]);

    }



    cout<<dp[0]<<nl;



return 0;

}