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

using namespace std;

typedef long long ll;

typedef unsigned long long ull;

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

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

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

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

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

#define     Endl            "\n";

#define     tab             "\t"

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

#define     sf(a)           scanf(" %d", &a);

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

#define     pi              2*acos(0.0)

#define     inf             INT_MAX

const int sz=1e5+9;

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



int clac(int i){

    if(i==n) return 0;

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

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

    int right=inf;

    if(i+2<=n){

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

    }

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

}



void solve(){

    cin>>n;

    reset(dp,-1);

    lp(i,1,n+1)cin>>arr[i];

    cout<<clac(1)<<"\n";

}



int main(){

    //FasterIO;

    #ifndef ONLINE_JUDGE

       // freopen("1.txt","r",stdin);

   #endif

   // int t;

    //cin>>t;

    //while(t--)

        solve();

}


// Faster C++ solution for the same problem (measured speedup: 1.4004813357829464x):
#include<bits/stdc++.h>

using namespace std;

typedef		long long       ll;

typedef         long double      dl;

typedef     unsigned long long  ull;

#define		pb              push_back

#define		PB              pop_back

#define		nn              "\n"

#define     O_O             ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false); cin.tie(NULL)

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

#define		zz(v)           (ll)v.size()

#define		ss              ' '

#define	       MEM(a,b)         memset(a,(b),sizeof(a))

#define	       CLR(p)           memset(p,0,sizeof(p))

#define f0(i,b) for(int i=0;i<(b);i++)

#define f1(i,b) for(int i=1;i<=(b);i++)

#define f2(i,a,b) for(int i=(a);i<=(b);i++)

#define fr(i,b,a) for(int i=(b);i>=(a);i--)

#define rep(i,a,b,c) for(int i=(a);i!=(b);i+=(c))

#define         arrsize(a)      (sizeof(a)/sizeof(a[0]))

//#define       arrsize(a)      (sizeof(a)/sizeof(*a))

#define 	S(a)            scanf("%lld",&a)

#define 	SS(a,b)         scanf("%lld %lld",&a,&b)

#define 	SSS(a,b,c)      scanf("%lld %lld %lld",&a,&b,&c)

#define		gcd(a,b)        __gcd(a,b)

#define		lcm(a,b)        (a*b)/gcd(a,b)

#define		pi              acos(-1.0)

#define	       ff               first

#define	       sc              second

typedef        pair <int, int>   pii;

typedef       pair <ll, ll>      pll;

typedef      vector< pair <ll, ll> >      vpll;

typedef		vector<ll>      vll;

typedef		map<string,ll>      msl;

typedef		map<ll,ll>      mll;

#define yes cout << "YES\n"

#define no cout<<"NO\n"

//memset(ar,-1,sizeof(ar));

//#define sort(x) sort(x.begin(), x.end())

//sort(a,a+n,greater<ll>())

//for (auto it = mp.begin(); it != mp.end(); ++it){}

// string x(w.size(),'1');

#define MAX 1000005

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



#define mod 1000000007



ll ar[MAX],ans[MAX];



int main()

{

 //O_O ;

   ll n;

   cin>>n;

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

    cin>>ar[i];

   ans[n]=0,

   ans[n-1]=abs(ar[n-1]-ar[n]);

   for(ll i=n-2;i>=1;i--)

   {

       ans[i]=min((abs(ar[i]-ar[i+1])+ans[i+1]),(abs(ar[i]-ar[i+2])+ans[i+2]));

      // cout<<<<ss<<i<<nn;

       // cout<<(abs(ar[i]-ar[i+2])+ans[i+2])<<ss<<i<<nn;



   }

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

   // cout<<ans[i]<<ss;cout<<nn;

   cout<<ans[1]<<nn;



    return 0;

}