// 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: 1.4147970312997806x):
#pragma GCC optimize("O3")



#include <bits/stdc++.h>



typedef long long ll;

typedef unsigned long long ull;

typedef long double ld;

#define F first

#define S second

#define pii pair<int,int>

#define pll pair<ll, ll>

#define vi vector<int>

#define vll vector<ll>

#define vii vector<pii>

#define read(FILE)  freopen(FILE, "r", stdin);

#define out(FILE) freopen(FILE, "w", stdout);

#define clr(x, y) memset(x,y,sizeof(x));

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

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

#define rep(i, m, n) for(int i=m ; i<n ; i++)

#define forr(i, m, n) for(int i=m ; i<=n ; i++)

#define endl '\n'

#define pb push_back

#define re return

const int N = 1e5 + 5;

const ll OO = 2e8;

using namespace std;



int n, cost[N], dp[N],res=0;



bool valid(int i) {

    re i < n;

}



int main() {

    //IO;

    cin >> n;

    rep(i, 0, n) cin >> cost[i];

    //memset(dp,OO, sizeof(dp));

    dp[0] = 0;

    dp[1]=abs(cost[1]-cost[0]);

    rep(i,2,n){

        int next=OO,nextawy=OO;

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

        nextawy=dp[i-2]+abs(cost[i-2]-cost[i]);

        dp[i]=min(next,nextawy);

        //cout<<dp[i]<<" ";

    }

    //n--;

    cout<<dp[n-1];

    //cout<<endl;





}