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

#include <ext/pb_ds/assoc_container.hpp>

#include <ext/pb_ds/tree_policy.hpp>

using namespace __gnu_pbds;

using namespace std;

#define DEBUG

#ifdef DEBUG

#define debug(...) __f(#__VA_ARGS__, __VA_ARGS__)

	template <typename Arg1>

	void __f(const char* name, Arg1&& arg1){

		cerr << name << " : " << arg1 << std::endl;

	}

	template <typename Arg1, typename... Args>

	void __f(const char* names, Arg1&& arg1, Args&&... args){

		const char* comma = strchr(names + 1, ','); cerr.write(names, comma - names) << " : " << arg1<<" | ";__f(comma+1, args...);

	}

#else

#define debug(...)

#endif

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

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

#define ln 		"\n"

#define mp make_pair

#define pb push_back

#define sz(a)	ll(a.size())

#define F first

#define S second

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

#define rall(c) c.rbegin(), c.rend()

#define trace(c,x) for(auto &x:c)

#define pii pair<ll,ll>

#define init(a, x) memset(a,x,sizeof(a))

typedef long long ll;

typedef long double ld;

typedef	priority_queue<pii,std::vector<pii>,greater<pii> > revpr;



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

// ordered_set X

//K-th smallest

//*X.find_by_order(k-1)

//NO OF ELEMENTS < A

//X.order_of_key(A)

const int L=1e6+7;

ll n, h[L], dp[L];

ll solve(int i)

{

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

	if(i>=n)return INT_MAX;

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

	ll &ret = dp[i];

	ret = INT_MAX;

	ret = solve(i+1) + abs(h[i]-h[i+1]);

	ret = min(ret,solve(i+2) + abs(h[i]-h[i+2]));

	return ret;

}

void fff()

{

	cin >> n;

	init(dp, -1);

	FOR(i,0,n)cin >> h[i];

	cout<<solve(0)<<ln;

}

int main()

{

	ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false);

	cin.tie(NULL);

	cout.tie(NULL);

	//int t;cin >> t;while(t--)

	fff();

	return 0;

}

// Faster C++ solution for the same problem (measured speedup: 9.04389019056909x):
//                                 Alisher_2211

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        # include <bits/stdc++.h>

# define  long          long long

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

# define  allr(vc)      vc.rbegin(),vc.rend()

# define  pb            push_back

# define  fi            first 

# define  se            second

# define  pi            pair <long, long>    

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

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        using namespace std;

const long N = 100100;

void read(){freopen("input.txt" , "r" , stdin );freopen("output.txt", "w" , stdout );}

long dp[N];

long n;

void solve(){

    cin >> n;

    vector <long> v(n + 1), d(n);

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

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

        long o1 = dp[i - 1] + abs( v[i] - v[i - 1] );

        long o2 = dp[i - 2] + abs( v[i] - v[i - 2] );

        if( i == 2 ) o2 = 1e9 + 100;

        dp[i] = min(o1, o2);

    }

    cout << dp[n];

}

int32_t main(){

ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false); cin.tie(0); cout.tie(0); 

        long T = 1;

        //cin >> T;

        while( T-- ){

            solve();

            cout<<'\n';

        }

cerr << "\nTime elapsed: " << 1.0 * clock() / CLOCKS_PER_SEC << " s.\n";

}