// 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: 2.5673994337408326x):
#include <bits/stdc++.h>

#define f first

#define s second

#define fore(i,a,b) for(int i = (a), ThxMK = (b); i < ThxMK; ++i)

#define pb push_back

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

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

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

#define ENDL '\n'

using namespace std;

typedef long double ld;

typedef long long lli;

typedef pair<lli,lli> ii;

#define deb(x) cout << #x": " << (x) << endl;



int main(){ _

  lli n;

  cin >> n;

  vector <lli> a(n);

  lli x;

  fore (i,0,n){

    cin >> x;

    a[i] = x;

  }

  vector <lli> b(n);

  b[0] = 0;

  b[1] = abs(a[0] - a[1]) + b[0];

  fore (i,2,n){

    if ((abs(a[i - 1] - a[i]) + b[i - 1]) < (abs(a[i - 2] - a[i]) + b[i - 2])){

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

    }

    else{

      b[i] = abs(a[i - 2] - a[i]) + b[i - 2];

    }

  }

  cout << b[n - 1] << ENDL;

  return 0;

}