// Slower C++ solution:
#define _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS

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#include <bits/stdc++.h>

#include<unordered_map>

#include<iomanip>

#include<fstream>

using namespace std;

#include<iostream>

#define endl '\n'

#define ll long long

#define ull unsigned long long

#define dll double

#define PI acos(-1)

#define watch(x) cout<<#x<<" = { "<<x<<" }\n"

#define sz(n) n.size()

#define M_Sayed fast() 

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

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

#define RT(v) return cout<<v,0

int dx[] = { 0, 1, 0, -1, 1, 1, -1, -1 };

int dy[] = { 1, 0, -1, 0, 1, -1, 1, -1 };

const double EPS = (1e-7);

ll Ceil(ll x, ll y) { return (x + y - 1) / y; }

void run() {

#ifndef ONLINE_JUDGE

	freopen("input.txt", "r", stdin);

	//freopen("output.txt", "w", stdout);

#else

#endif

}

ll gcd(ll a, ll b) { return !b ? abs(a) : gcd(b, a % b); }

ll lcm(ll a, ll b) { return abs(a / gcd(a, b)) * b; }

ll power(ll x, ll y, ll mod) {

	if (y == 0) return 1;

	if (y == 1) return x % mod;

	ll r = power(x, y >> 1, mod);

	return (((r * r) % mod) * power(x, y & 1, mod)) % mod;

}

void fast() { ios::sync_with_stdio(false); cin.tie(NULL); cout.tie(NULL); }

ll n, m, k,su,cnt;

ll vis[100009];

vector<ll>v;

ll Jum(int x) {

	if (x+1 == n)

		return 0;

	ll &ret = vis[x];

	if (~ret)return ret;

	 ret = abs(v[x] - v[x + 1])+Jum(x + 1) ;

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

		if(i+x<n)ret = min(ret,Jum(x + i) + abs(v[x] - v[x + i]));

	}

	return ret;

}

int main()

{

	//run();

	M_Sayed;

	cin >> n ;

	memset(vis, -1, sizeof vis);

	v.resize(n);

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

		cin >> v[i];

	}

	k = 2;

	RT(Jum(0));

}

// Faster C++ solution for the same problem (measured speedup: 1.7943294219905128x):
#include <iostream>

#include <bits/stdc++.h>

#define mod 998244353

typedef long long ll;



using namespace std;



void Fastio(){

    ios::sync_with_stdio(0);

    cin.tie(0);

    cout.tie(0);

}



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]) ;

        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;

}



long double  NCR(int n, int m){

    long double res = 1;

    m = min(m, n - m);

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

        res = res * ( n - i) / (i + 1);

 }

    return res;

}

ll tol(string a){

    ll res=0;

    while(a[0]=='0'){

        a.erase(a.begin());

    }

    if(a=="")a="0";

    for(int i=0; i<a.size(); i++){

        res*=10; res+=a[i]-'0';

    }

    return res;

}

int check(string a, string b){

    for(int i=0; i<a.size(); i++){

        if(a[i]>b[i])return 1;

        if(b[i]>a[i])return -1;

    }

    return 0;

}

class data{

public:

    ll v,d,p;

    data(){}

    data(ll vv, ll dd, ll pp){

        v=vv;  d=dd; p=pp;

    }

};



int primeFactors(int n)

{

    ll c=0;

    while (n % 2 == 0)

    {

        c++;

        n = n/2;

    }

    for (int i = 3; i*i <= n; i = i + 2)

    {

        while (n % i == 0)

        {

            c++;

            n = n/i;

        }

    }

    if (n > 2)

        c++;

    return c;

}



int main()

{

    Fastio();

    int n; cin>>n;

    int arr[n];

    for(int i=0; i<n; i++){cin>>arr[i];}

    ll dp[n]={0};

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

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

        ll ans1, ans2;

        ans1=abs(arr[i]-arr[i-1])+dp[i-1];

        ans2=abs(arr[i]-arr[i-2])+dp[i-2];

        dp[i]=min(ans1,ans2);

    }

    cout<<dp[n-1]<<'\n';



    return 0;

}