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

#include <ext/numeric>



using namespace std;

using namespace __gnu_cxx;



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

#define endl "\n"

#define pb push_back

#define F first

#define S second

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

#define isOdd(n)    (n&1)

#define LLMAX LLONG_MAX

#define LLMIN LLONG_MIN

#define IMN INT_MIN

#define IMX INT_MAX

#define pow(n, m) power((ll)n, (ll)m)

#define numOfDigits(n)  ((n)? (ll)(log10(n)+1) : 1)

#define mem(x, val)    memset(x, val, sizeof(x))



typedef long long ll;

typedef long double ld;

typedef double dd;

typedef string str;

typedef pair<int, int> pii;





vector<int> v;

int dp[(int)1e5];

int n;

int jump(int i){

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

    if(i>=n) return 1e9;



    int &ret = dp[i];



    if(~ret) return ret;



    int cnt = 0;

    if(i+1<n) cnt = abs(v[i] - v[i+1]) + jump(i+1);

    if(i+2<n) cnt = min(cnt, abs(v[i] - v[i+2]) + jump(i+2));



    return ret = cnt;

}

int main()

{

    THINK_TWICE_CODE_ONCE

    //freopen("test cases\\.txt", "r", stdin) ;

    cin>>n;

    v.resize(n);

    for(int &i: v) cin>>i;

    mem(dp, -1);

    cout<<jump(0);

    return 0;

}










// Faster C++ solution for the same problem (measured speedup: 1.385417411735025x):
#include <iostream>

#include <string>

#include<iomanip>

#include <algorithm>

#include <map>

#include <vector>

#include<queue>

#include<math.h>

#include<cmath>

#include<sstream>

#include<set>

#include <map>

#include<string.h>

#include<sstream>

#include<stack>

#include<unordered_map>

#include <iostream>

#include <stdio.h>

#include <stdlib.h>

#include <ctype.h>

#include <cstdio>

#include <cstdlib>

#include <complex>

#define ll long long

#define  point complex<double>

#define  pi acos(-1)

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

#define arr2dof vector  vector<vector<int>>dp(N,vector<int>(2, inf));

using namespace std;

const ll N = 2e5 + 5, mod = 1e9 + 7, inff = -1e12,inf=1e12;

const double ep = 0.0000000001;

//const double pi = 3.14159265359;



double dot(point a, point b) {

	return  (conj(a)*b).real();

}

double cross(point a, point b) {

	return  (conj(a)*b).imag();

}

double angle(point a, point b)

{

	double dt = dot(a, b);

	dt /= abs(a);

	dt /= abs(b);

	return acos(dt) * 180.0 / pi;

}



bool isrightangel(int ind) {//90 degree

	vector<point>v;

	return(angle(v[ind] - v[(ind + 1) % 3], v[ind] - v[(ind + 2) % 3]) == 90);//bshof hal eldot producty3ny fe

	//dl3en 3moden 3ashn yb2a right trinagle

}



ll fact[1000006], inv[1000006];



ll fp(ll base, ll exp)

{

	if (exp == 0)

		return 1;

	ll ans = fp(base, exp / 2);

	ans = (ans * ans) % mod;

	if (exp % 2 != 0)

		ans = (ans * (base % mod)) % mod;

	return ans;

}



void calcFacAndInv(ll n)

{

	fact[0] = inv[0] = 1;

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

	{

		fact[i] = (i * fact[i - 1]) % mod;

		inv[i] = fp(fact[i], mod - 2);

	}

}



ll ncr(ll n, ll r)

{

	return ((fact[n] * inv[r]) % mod * inv[n - r]) % mod;

}



ll npr(ll n, ll r)

{

	return (fact[n] * inv[n - r]) % mod;

}











	int dp[N];

int main()

{

	ll n,arr[100005];

	cin >> n;

	for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) {

		cin >> arr[i];

	}

	dp[0] = 0;//land on 1

	dp[1] = abs(arr[0]-arr[1]);//to land on 2

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

		dp[i] = min(abs(arr[i] - arr[i - 1]) + dp[i - 1], abs(arr[i] - arr[i - 2]) + dp[i - 2]);

	}

	cout << dp[n - 1];

	return 0;

}